Elizabeth Samet quotes

“courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.”
-- Elizabeth Samet

Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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“Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.”
-- Elizabeth Samet

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“The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.”
-- Elizabeth Samet

Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.55, Macmillan

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“I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.”

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

“courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.”

Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?”

Source : Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”

“Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.”

“[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!”

“You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.”

Source : Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013

“Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.”

“When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.”