Quotes by Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

Air

Molotov Cocktail

Tanks

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that’s just what journalism is.

Inspire

Journalism

Thinking

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

Adventure

Fate

Outcomes

At 19, your brain hasn’t finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don’t go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They’re facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they’re not ready for it.

Good Friend

People

Soldier

Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there’s a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

Community

Media

School

Combat isn’t where you might die — though that does happen — it’s where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don’t underestimate the power of that revelation. Don’t underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

Games

Men

Order

During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

Death

Men

War

Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

Fire

War

Winning

Firemen don’t talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Burning

Fireman

Saving

Here’s an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time – if they’re putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment – they’re going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

Reality

Understanding

War

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Acceptance

Adventure

Air

Als

Army

Battle

Belief

Believe

Blessing

Brain

Bridges

Brotherhood

Burning

Car

Careers

Causes

Children

Christian

Cities

Commitment

Community

Connections

Country

Couple

Coward

Cry

Cynical

Dark

Death

Dirty

Divorce

Dream

Eight

Exciting

Eye

Fate

Fire

Fireman

Firsts

Fun

Games

Girlfriend

Giving Up

Golf

Good Friend

Grew

Grew Up

Gun

Hanging On

Hate

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Quotes by Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that’s just what journalism is.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

At 19, your brain hasn’t finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don’t go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They’re facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they’re not ready for it.

Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there’s a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

Combat isn’t where you might die — though that does happen — it’s where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don’t underestimate the power of that revelation. Don’t underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

Firemen don’t talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

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