peacetime quotes

   We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it'slike, what we'regoing through.We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

- Larry (Lawrence) Kramer
  Ned speaking of gay men with  AIDS. The Normal Heart, act 2, sc.11.

Too many†pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

- Harry S Truman
  Reply to a Boston University official who had criticized Truman's use of the atomic bomb.Truman Library archives, 23 Sep.