“It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
“It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Spoken by George C. Scott in the film Patton.
Variants:
No man ever won a war by dying for his country. Wars were won by making the other poor bastard die for his.
You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his.
War is not meant to be you dying for your country-it is by making the other bastard die for his.
Misattributed
“I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.”
James Clavell book King Rat
Part 1, Ch. 1, Lt. Grey, First line of the story.
King Rat (1962)
“Get well soon, Castro. [pause] Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)
“He was just there, looking fantastic… the bastard.”
Mick Jones (The Clash) (1955) British rock guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
As quoted in 3:AM magazine (1994) http://www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2004/nov/interview_paul_simonon.html Mick Jones on Paul Simonon.
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“What really happened to her? How did she die?”
Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia
Reaction to Marilyn Monroe's death, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, p. 433