So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

You don't have to think about God because God has already stopped thinking about you.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.