Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age Quotes

“When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock…Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more.”[12]”
― Christopher S.M. Lyon, Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age: General George S. Patton and the Art of Sacred Violence in the Twentieth Century

“And how can man die better               Than facing fearful odds;               For the ashes of his fathers               And the temples of his Gods.               - “Horatius at the Bridge”,               Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay”
― Christopher S.M. Lyon, Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age: General George S. Patton and the Art of Sacred Violence in the Twentieth Century

“Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the               situation than I was, because it was that awful weather which I cursed               so much which made it possible for the German army to commit suicide.                 That, Sir, was a brilliant military move, and I bow humbly to a supreme               military genius.”[58]”
― Christopher S.M. Lyon, Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age: General George S. Patton and the Art of Sacred Violence in the Twentieth Century

“Give me four days of sunshine to dry this blasted mud…I need these               four days to send von Rundstedt and his godless army to their Valhalla.               I am sick of the unnecessary butchery of American youth, and in exchange               for four days of fighting weather, I will deliver to You enough Krauts to               keep Your bookkeepers months behind in their work. Amen.”[57]”
― Christopher S.M. Lyon, Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age: General George S. Patton and the Art of Sacred Violence in the Twentieth Century

“Patton was ecstatic, writing home to Beatrice that “I know I am needed!” and “The Lord had a perfect cut for me and pulled his punch”.[46] He filed this incident away with numerous others, all of which pointed towards the inevitability of his own destiny; manifest on a personal level, this was American exceptionalism writ small.[47]”
― Christopher S.M. Lyon, Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age: General George S. Patton and the Art of Sacred Violence in the Twentieth Century

“Like Lono’s sword, he was both a symbol and a lethal tool; like the bayonet, his sole purpose was to be buried in the foeman’s intestines; like all of his prior imagined reincarnations, his sole purpose was, like some macabre butterfly, to metamorphose into a killing machine, and die with sword in hand.”
― Christopher S.M. Lyon, Holy Warrior in an Unholy Age: General George S. Patton and the Art of Sacred Violence in the Twentieth Century