Quotes 10/8/09

"We became hard, suspicious, pitiless, vicious, tough- and that was good; for these attributes were just what we lacked." (Remarque 26.)

In All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque quotes this and how the war had changed them and how it helped the survive the war. If they were not changed into these these things they would have surely died because if you did not change into a adult and maned up you would have been thought of as weak by your own men as well as others.