10+ Philip Caputo Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Philip Caputo quotes and sayings.

It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting. — Philip Caputo

In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses. — Philip Caputo

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. — Philip Caputo

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. — Philip Caputo

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore. — Philip Caputo

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. — Philip Caputo

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them. — Philip Caputo

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb. — Philip Caputo

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. — Philip Caputo

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own. — Philip Caputo