Sebastian Junger Quotes
Top 42 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Sebastian Junger on Wise Famous Quotes.
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others
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?
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.
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.
I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.
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.
There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.
Much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)
So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?
All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking in.
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.
They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
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.
As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose ... with a resulting improvement in mental health,
Why are you focusing on how different you are from one another, and not on the things that unite us? The
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
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.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".
The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's