Any non-commissioned officer is more of... by Erich Maria Remarque | We Heart Quotes

Enemy

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

- Erich Maria Remarque

Other quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

Birds Faces

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

- Erich Maria Remarque

Faces Women Man Being

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

- Erich Maria Remarque

Peace Want

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

- Erich Maria Remarque

War

A hospital alone shows what war is.

- Erich Maria Remarque

People

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

- Erich Maria Remarque

Life

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

- Erich Maria Remarque

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