For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLERThey agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
JOSEPH HELLERSome men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
JOSEPH HELLERThe question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
JOSEPH HELLERBe glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
JOSEPH HELLERWell, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
JOSEPH HELLERSomething did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
JOSEPH HELLERWhere were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
JOSEPH HELLERThe country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
JOSEPH HELLERThe villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
JOSEPH HELLERHe knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
JOSEPH HELLERThe laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen 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.
JOSEPH HELLERYou know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
JOSEPH HELLERI think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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