Best Catch 22 Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There’s an intelligence version of Catch-22, knowledge of which requires a special security clearance. As for how to obtain the clearance, you need to know the intelligence version of Catch-22.”

Philosophy Funny Espionage Paradoxes Catch 22

Author:John Alejandro King aka The Covert Comic

“How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.”

Age Growing Up Growing Old Ageing Growing Older Catch 22

Book:Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.”

Lonely Forgotten Abandoned Aloneness Self Consciousness Personal No Friends Catch 22

Author:Joseph Heller

“Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play the Game, by those who are Inside the Game.”

Play Challenges Freedom Ethics Morals Rules Dharma Dilemma Game Circle Cycle Of Life Duties Game Of Life Game Theory Catch 22 Set Of Rules

Author:Vineet Raj Kapoor

“When you make changes to preserve something, whether an artifact or an entire building, you risk altering the object and it’s history. However, if you don’t, you risk losing it entirely.”

History Architecture Museums Preservation Duality Catch 22 Double Edged Sword

Book:Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums

Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums

“For centuries it was considered that a criminal was given a sentence for precisely this purpose, to think about his crime for the whole period of his sentence, be conscience-stricken, repent, and gradually reform. But the Gulag Archipelago knows no pangs of conscience! Out of one hundred natives—five are thieves, and their transgressions are no reproach in their own eyes, but a mark of valor. They dream of carrying out such feats in the future even more brazenly and cleverly. They have nothing to repent. Another five… stole on a big scale, but not from people; in our times, the only place where one can steal on a big scale is from the state, which itself squanders the people's money without pity or sense—so what was there for such types to repent of? Maybe that they had not stolen more and divvied up—and thus remained free? And, so far as another 85 percent of the natives were concerned—they had never committed any crimes whatever. What were they supposed to repent of? That they has thought what they thought? (Nonetheless, they managed to pound and muddle some of them to such an extent that they did repent—of being so depraved….) Or that a man had surrendered and become a POW in a hopeless situation? Or that he had taken employment under the Germans instead of dying of starvation? (Nonetheless, the managed so to confuse what was permitted and what was forbidden that there were some such who were tormented greatly: I would have done better to die than to have earned that bread.) Or that while working for nothing in the collective-farm fields, he had taken a mite to feed his children? Or that he had taken something from a factory for the same reason? No, not only do you not repent, but your clean conscience, like a clear mountain lake, shines in your eyes.”

Prison Reform Gulag 1975 Catch 22 The Ascent The Soul And Barbed Wire

Book:The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

“This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It’s made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you’ve got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.”

Cotton Milo Catch 22

Book:Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, wobbling easel map of Italy that blew over in the wind and was dragged in under the awning of the intelligence tent every time the rain began. The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forward most position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland. For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city. When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left." In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna.”

War Humor Inspiration Funny Hope Prayer Meditation Rational Superstition Awesome Yossarian Bologna Catch 22

Book:Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“The pursuit of money is empty and soul-destroying, and so is your bank account if you don't do it.”

Greed Making Money Love Of Money Catch 22 Rich Vs Poor Monetary Gain Damned If You Do Damned If You Don T Empty Purse Going Broke

Author:Stewart Stafford

“These days about the worst job you can have is be a US military man. It's so shameful. You're so expensive, yet so completely useless. You know you can't fuck with Russia because they'll just start blowing nukes up for shits and giggles. And you can fuck with China because they probably have a shitton of biological weapons stashed in every Chinatown to take out most US population very, very quickly. At least that’s what I would do, and THEY are a lot smarter than I am. So you keep busy and pretend to be useful by killing Arabs in caves and shit, cuz that seems like a pretty low risk adventure. but... even that's gonna come back and bite you in the Ass eventually... these things usually do...”

Strategy Military Industrial Complex Us Military God Bless America Catch 22 Thought Experiments

Author:Dmitry Dyatlov

“High altitude astronomy is a catch 22: Stay inside the observatory and get high altitude observatory disease (HAOD) or go outside and get radiation sickness. Either way, the sea level adapted human may develop sickness.”

Disease Safety Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Radiation High Observatory Catch 22

Author:Steven Magee

“The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.”

Red Orange Tomato Catch 22 Pear Shaped Chaplain Plum Plum Tomato

Book:Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.”

Schizophrenia Catch 22 Double Bind

Book:The Double Bind

Source: The Double Bind

“Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”

Snowden Catch 22

Author:Joseph Heller