All Quiet on the Western Front Quotes

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Paul Bäumer: You still think it's beautiful to die for your country. The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all.

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Albert Kropp: [speaking of school] They never taught us really useful like how to light a cigarette in the wind, or make a fire out of wet wood, or bayonet a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.

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Tjaden: Me and the Kaiser, we are both fighting. The only difference is the Kaiser isn't here!

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Katczinsky: I'll tell you how it should all be done. [spits] Katczinsky: Whenever there's a big war comin' on, you should rope off a big field... Cigar-smoking soldier: And sell tickets. Katczinsky: Yeah. And - [glares at interrupter] Katczinsky: And...

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Paul Bäumer: War isn't the way it looks back here.

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Paul Bäumer: We live in the trenches out there. We fight. We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are. That's all.

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[first title card] Title card: This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even tho...

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[first lines] Man cleaning doorknob: Thirty thousand. Maid: From the Russians? Man cleaning doorknob: No, from the French. From the Russians we capture more than that every day.

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Paul Bäumer: And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.

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Franz Kemmerich: [after risking his life to bring back Behn] He's dead!... He's dead! Katczinsky: [angrily] Why did you risk your life bringin' him in? Franz Kemmerich: [very upset] But it's Behn! My friend! Katczinsky: He's a corpse - no matter who ...

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Tjaden: They tell me there's some people in this world take a bath every week.

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Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust.

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Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich. [murmurs of agreement] Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we ...

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Franz Kemmerich: [to Mueller] Why it's an honor to have those boots in your face. They're the best pair in the army.

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[last lines] Second orderly: Your deal. Get his name and number? Medic Orderly: Yeah. Corporal Stanislaus Katczinsky, 306.

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Schoolmaster: [to his students] You are the life of the Fatherland! You are the iron men of Germany!

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Katczinsky: [entering and seeing the new recruits] What is this? Tjaden: [sarcastically] Volunteers for the future general's staff. Katczinsky: [to the recruits] Oh, sometime I'm gonna take one of you volunteers apart and find out what makes you leav...

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