There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
Read more Gen. George Broulard QuotesFrom: Paths of Glory
General Broulard: Colonel Dax, you're a disappointment to me. You've spoiled the keenness of your mind by wallowing in sentimentality. You really did want to save those men, and you were not angling for Mireau's command. You are an idealist... and I pity you as I would the village idiot. We're fighting a war, Dax, a war that we've got to win. Those men didn't fight, so they were shot. You bring charges against General Mireau, so I insist that he answer them. Wherein have I done wrong?Colonel Dax: Because you don't know the answer to that question. I pity you.
General Mireau: I can't understand these armchair officers, fellas trying to fight a war from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy, worrying about whether a mouse is gonna run up their pants leg.Colonel Dax: I don't know, General. If I had the choice between mice and Mausers, I think I'd take the mice every time.