Ronald Speirs quotes

“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
-- Ronald Speirs

Source : "Fictional character: Ronald Speirs". "Band of Brothers", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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“The only way for a soldier to not be afraid of wars is to accept the fact that he is already dead.”
-- Ronald Speirs

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“Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.”

Source : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.19, Lulu.com

“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”

“School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”

“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!”

“A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.”

“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.”

“One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”