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Top 10 Philip Caputo Quotes (2025 Update)

Philip Caputo Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.”

2. “In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.”

3. “So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose.”

4. “We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.”

5. “And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “I saw their living mouths moving in conversation and their dead mouths grinning the taut-drawn grins of corpses. Their living eyes I saw, and their dead eyes still-staring. Had it not been for the fear that I was going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a trip such as no drug could possibly produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw dead men living; awake, I saw living men dead.”

6. “I saw their living mouths moving in conversation and their dead mouths grinning the taut-drawn grins of corpses. Their living eyes I saw, and their dead eyes still-staring. Had it not been for the fear that I was going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a trip such as no drug could possibly produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw dead men living; awake, I saw living men dead.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it.”

7. “There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “War, the ordinary man’s most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.”

9. “War, the ordinary man’s most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “I’m a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.”

10. “I’m a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself.”

11. “As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “True believers just don’t see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn’t be true believers anymore.”

12. “True believers just don’t see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn’t be true believers anymore.”

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Philip Caputo Quote: “You can thank us by doing something serious with it.”

13. “You can thank us by doing something serious with it.”

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