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Joseph Heller Quotes about War

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For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

Joseph Heller
War, Enough, Expensive
Joseph Heller (2016). “Closing Time”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Joseph Heller
War, Winning, Differences
Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Joseph Heller
Country, War, Fighting
Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Joseph Heller
War, Drug, Can Do

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

Joseph Heller
War, Winning, People
Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

Joseph Heller
War, Broke, Catch 22 Important
Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Joseph Heller
Children, War, Parent
Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Joseph Heller
Peace, War, Government
1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Joseph Heller
Children, War, Men
Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

Joseph Heller
War, Writing, Ideas
Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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