Firing Squad Quotes

“Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said...no, I'd be better off in the jungle, I thought, where a roar's a roar and no one is hard put to miss its meaning.”
― Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession

“The only time for blind patriotism is when standing blindfolded before a firing squad.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Marriage is when women finally get what they want, and men wave the white flag, unaware of the firing squad which awaits.”
― Robert Black

“Marriage is when women finally get what they want, and men wave the white flag, unaware of the firing squad that awaits them.”
― Jack Freestone