Quotes from book
Forever Peace

Name: Forever Peace
Author: Joe Haldeman

Forever Peace is a 1997 science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman. It won the Nebula Award, Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1998.

“Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 14

“We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course—and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 27

““You’re actually a soldier,” he said to me, “and you go along with this foolishness?”
“I didn’t ask to be a soldier. And I can’t imagine a peace as foolish as this war we’re in.””

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 227

“Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 146

“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 249

“One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 25

“Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 205

“It was an ideological war for some—the defenders of democracy versus the rebel strong-arm charismatic leaders. Or the capitalist land-grabbers versus the protectors of the people, take your pick.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 36

“Human nature does change, and the fact that we’ve developed tools to direct that change is quintessentially human. And it must be a nearly universal concomitant to technological growth everywhere in the universe; otherwise there would be no universe. Unless we’re the only technological intelligence in the universe, Julian pointed out; so far there’s no evidence to the contrary. Maybe our own existence is evidence that we’re the first creatures to evolve far enough to hit the reset button. Somebody does have to be first.
But maybe the first is always the last.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 205

“She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.””

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 54

“Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), pp. 44-45

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