“No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.”
“The only good human being is a dead one.”
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
“The little ones are the only good human beings.”
“Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what war demands of everyone. Far better is it for an army to be too savage, too cruel, too barbarous, than to possess too much sentimentality and human reasonableness.”
“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.”