Famous Quotes

"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

Chuck Palahniuk on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

• "Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything."

• "People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

• "Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"

• "The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone."

• "If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best."