Armageddon Quotes

“THE MOMENT OF DECISION is the loneliest in human life. It must be come upon in stillness and darkness and brooding thoughts and doubts torn out from the deep reaches of the soul.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“of the river, somewhat removed from Rombaden, are some forty or fifty medium to large estates belonging to the wealthy and upper crust of the area.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“It was said that a crow flying over Berlin would have to carry his own provisions.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“Before we pass judgment on the Germans let me say that I have never found an American who has expressed personal guilt over the fact that we destroyed a people and their civilization in brutal indifference to gain the North American continent.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must begin to plant some seeds.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“believed”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“Los hombres somos la suma total de nuestro pasado.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“Cayó como caen los valientes, Impertérrito hasta el fin, Y hoy la muerte le ha reunido Con los viejos héroes de la antigua Erin”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“1920 was that the Russians were Asians. Western culture had been imported into only a few of the larger cities. Most of Russia and the other captive states that comprised the Soviet Union simply did not think or act like the West.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“The soldier from the West is fairly predictable. One can surmise what a German or a French or Italian group of men will do under certain circumstances. However, the Russian soldier is an Asian, an oriental of sorts and he is completely unpredictable by Western standards. He will fight like a wild man on a given day. On another day, under the same circumstances, he will break and run.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“One of the first things Hansen learned when he came to starving Russia in 1920 was that the Russians were Asians. Western culture had been imported into only a few of the larger cities. Most of Russia and the other captive states that comprised the Soviet Union simply did not think or act like the West.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“The true guilty draw a curtain on the past. The most innocent assume the guilt. Unfortunately there are too few Germans like that girl.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“in the beginning all men are pure and driven by pure motivations. The men they believe in are also pure, in the beginning. But somewhere early in the journey all men come to that first moment of compromise.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“But the Russians have oriental patience. They waited a decade for political recognition and they will wait a century to achieve the ultimate aim. A stalemate for a decade does not matter, for the machinery is always at work, always plodding on. They are convinced that their final victory is inevitable. The Russian people knew that all invasions from Napoleon to Hitler had come from the West.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon

“The good Lord has been wonderful to our republic. He has given us the wisdom to fight wars with no thought of personal gain. But this time we cannot pack up and go home. We have come of age. We have inherited both the power and the responsibility of the world without seeking or wishing it.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“Every German must face the past before he can face the future.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon