Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo -
A Rumor of War (1977)
3 Sourced Quotes
View all Philip Caputo Quotes
Source
Report...
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
Philip Caputo
Source
Report...
Our mission was not to win terrain, or seize positions, but simply to kill: to kill Communists and to kill as many of them as possible. Stack 'em like cordwood. Victory was a high body-count, defeat a low kill-ratio, war a matter of arithmetic.
Philip Caputo
Source
Report...
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Philip Caputo
Quote of the day
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
Philip Caputo
Creative Commons
Born:
June 10, 1941
(age 83)
More about Philip Caputo...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
