The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.