Haldeman — The Forever War
Book page: haldeman-forever-war
From: Quotes batch 7
Edition: St. Martin’s Press (1974)
On Identity and Alienation
“I was a soldier, but the society I was fighting for had disappeared a thousand years ago. I was a ghost defending a graveyard.” (p. 182)
On Society and Evolution
“War is the ultimate social program. It forces a species to become what it needs to be to survive, whether it wants to or not.” (p. 210)