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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger. — Joe Biden

There is only one kind of land reform today: expropriation. — Ernst Junger

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? — Sebastian Junger

Economic absurdities are produced only when power is at stake. — Ernst Junger

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] — Ernst Junger

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. — Sebastian Junger

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by. — Sebastian Junger

Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others — Sebastian Junger

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage? — Sebastian Junger

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is. — Sebastian Junger

When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking in. — Sebastian Junger

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You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life. — Sebastian Junger

As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured. — Ernst Junger

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task. — Ernst Junger

I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command. — Sebastian Junger

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military. — Sebastian Junger

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you. — Sebastian Junger

Much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140) — Sebastian Junger

So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself? — Sebastian Junger

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film) — Alejandro Junger

Billy's at 44 north, 56 west and heading straight into meteorological hell. — Sebastian Junger

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have. — Sebastian Junger

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. — Sebastian Junger

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs. — Ernst Junger

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it. — Sebastian Junger

I had always been man enough to ruin myself without help. — Ernst Junger

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements. — Sebastian Junger

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself. — Sebastian Junger

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work. — Sebastian Junger

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing. — Sebastian Junger

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving. — Sebastian Junger

Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle. — Ernst Junger

They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover. — Sebastian Junger

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. — Ernst Junger

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well. — Sebastian Junger

A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air. — Sebastian Junger

As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down. — Sebastian Junger

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. — Sebastian Junger

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) — Sebastian Junger

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf? — Sebastian Junger

When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose ... with a resulting improvement in mental health, — Sebastian Junger

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. — Ernst Junger

I hope I get married one day. — Sebastian Junger

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. — Sebastian Junger

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. — Ernst Junger

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs. — Sebastian Junger

they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination - autonomy, — Sebastian Junger

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file — Ernst Junger

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words — Sebastian Junger

One of the anarch's emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go against his grain. — Ernst Junger

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place. — Sebastian Junger

We usually end up finding what we are looking for, but we only look for what we already know. — Alejandro Junger

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men". — Sebastian Junger

The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's — Sebastian Junger

There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea. — Sebastian Junger

What people miss presumably isn't danger or loss but the unity that these things often engender. — Sebastian Junger

Why are you focusing on how different you are from one another, and not on the things that unite us? The — Sebastian Junger