“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”
“To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.”
“Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?”
“On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.”
“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.”
“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”