# Quote — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

> A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

- Author: [Erich Maria Remarque](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque.md)
- Book: [All Quiet on the Western Front](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front.md)
- Page: 193
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/a-word-of-command

## More from this book

> This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/this-book-is.md)

> No, we are not related. No, we are not related.
>
> Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

p. 291 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/no-we-are.md)

> It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/it-is-very.md)