Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

Let someone else get killed!

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?