“he noticed an inscription written on the floor at the foot of a pile of bones: What you are, they once were. What they are, you will be.”

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”

“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”

“It's not a question of getting more moral soldiers. Instead it's a question of recognizing how the situation of war (and the cultural institutions/practices of the military that we have designed to "prepare" people for that situation) creates monsters out of us all.”

“Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.”

“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.”

“Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.”