From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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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.
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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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