Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Johnny Got His Gun.
Warfare Quotes
The airplane said Mr. Hargraves was ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity and mutual understanding. Everyone would be friends said Mr. Hargraves when the airplane knitted the world together...
Manipulation and Propaganda Quotes
But the entry of Roumania into the war occurred on the same day the Los Angeles newspapers carried a story of two young Canadian soldiers who had been crucified by the Germans in full view of their...
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
Only when you're deaf you're lonesome. You're godforsaken. (1.30)
Suffering Quotes
He was sick and probably out of his head and he was badly hurt and he was lonesome deaf but he was also alive and he could still hear far away and sharp the sound of a telephone bell. (1.32)
Home Quotes
They were steaming hot and you put butter inside them and it melted and then you put jam on them or apricot preserves with nuts in the syrup. That was all you wanted for supper although you had to...
Principles Quotes
What do you care about making the world safe for democracy? All you wanted to do Joe was to live. (2.22)
Society and Class Quotes
Things weren't going well and they never would have gone well for you and it's just as good you're dead. People've got to be quicker and harder these days than you were dad. (1.14)
Mortality Quotes
Maybe it would be a lot better if you were dead and buried on the hill across the river from Shale City. (2.22)