A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.