Quotes from Elizabeth Samet

We surrendered rather easily to yet another romantic notion: that meaning is to be found only in misery

The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.