174 Quotes by Sebastian Junger

Why are you focusing on how different you are from one another, and not on the things that unite us?” The.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The equality of all men”.

Two of the behaviors that set early humans apart were the systematic sharing of food and altruistic group defense. Other primates did very little of either but, increasingly, hominids did, and those behaviors helped set them on an evolutionary path that produced the modern world.

The cause doesn’t have to be righteous and battle doesn’t have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

The problem with fear, though, is that it isn’t any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomy – anxiety, dread, panic, foreboding – and you could be braced for one form and completely fall apart facing another.

Civilians balk at recognizing that one of the most traumatic things about combat is having to give it up. War is so obviously evil and wrong that the idea there could be anything good to it almost feels like a profanity.

There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea.

So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?

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