I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.
Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't, and t...
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22....
I think I’d like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions. What kind of vegetable, Danby? A cucumber or a carrot. What kind of cucumber? A good one or a bad one? Oh, a good one, of cou...
I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal...
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.
Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.
It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way
Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose
You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do," Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?
Who's they? He wanted to know. Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?Every one of them, Yossarian told him.Every one of whom?Every one of whom do you think?I haven't any idea.Then ho...
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.
Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,