Breaker Morant quotes

Breaker Morant quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!”
-- Breaker Morant

Source : Quoted in Bill Hornadge, The Australian Slanguage (1980)

#Military Quotes #Mess Quotes

“When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.”
“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”
“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”
“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”
“'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'”
“Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.”
“Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper”
“I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess...”
“In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”
“American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.”

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