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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
— Joe Biden
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?
— Sebastian 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
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
order to play that game one more time. The
— Sebastian Junger
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
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
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
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
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
Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
— 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
Billy's at 44 north, 56 west and heading straight into meteorological hell.
— Sebastian Junger
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
— Sebastian Junger
They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.
— Sebastian 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
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
I hope I get married one day.
— 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
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
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
— Sebastian 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
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
