Ernie Pyle Quotes about War

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

Ernie Pyle

War, Rain, Boys

Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

Ernie Pyle

War, Military, Believe

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle

War, Men, Giants

Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Ernie Pyle

Peace, War, Black

ERNIE PYLE (1944). “BRAVE MEN”

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

Ernie Pyle

War, Fighting, Lines

Ernie Pyle (2016). “Brave Men”, p.127, Michael O'Mara Books

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

Ernie Pyle

Military, War, Writing

Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

Ernie Pyle

Country, War, Ugly

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Ernie Pyle

War, Soldier, Literature

Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Ernie Pyle

War, Soldier, Lines

Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press