General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.
Dehogynem haldoklik. Mindahányan haldoklunk.
As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principl...
– Hogy érzi magát, Yossarian? – Pompásan. Nem, rettenetesen félek. – Akkor jól van – mondta Danby őrnagy. – Ez annak a bizonyítéka, hogy él.
You’ve got to have a God. Without God, you might turn to something really crazy, like witchcraft, or religion.
You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent... - Yossarian
Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.
Why, swore Yossarian at him approvingly, you evil-eyed, mechanicallyaptituded, disaffiliated son of a bitch, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?
We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.
They think that they’re smart and that the rest of us are dumb.
There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it indeed seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunb...
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy an...
There was no way of really knowing anything, he knew, not even that there was no way of really knowing anything.
The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference.
Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.'Yossarian knew wh...
One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him...
Oly sok boldogtalanság van a világban, tűnődött, komoran meghajtva fejét a tragikus gondolat előtt, és ő mit sem tehet senki boldogtalansága ellen, legkevésbé a saját boldogtalansága ellen.