Colonel Cathcart

Character in Catch-22 From: Catch-22

Ambitious commanding officer obsessed with promotion

38 quotes

"Good God, I'm a miser."
Money
"I'll make you Major for this."
Leadership
"The country needs you."
Leadership
"You're a lousy softball player."
Humor
"You're a disgrace to the uniform."
"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to do, as long as I fill out the proper forms."
Power
"The truth is whatever is believed."
Truth
"Anything worth dying for is certainly worth lying for."
Philosophy
"Let's take a walk and discuss the matter."
Leadership
"Dead men don't talk back."
Death
"You're wasting your time."
Time
"Some men are born mediocre, some achieve it, some have it thrust upon them."
"Some people are worth destroying."
War
"Leadership without wisdom is tyranny."
Leadership
"The end justifies the means, he believed."
"They're not going to let you just walk away from all this, Yossarian."
Freedom
"I'm the only one who knows what I'm talking about."
Power
"There was a time when I worried about these things, but not anymore."
Change
"Every victim is a happy man."
Power
"Pride comes before the fall."
Power
"Gratitude is a sign of weakness."
Power
"You're a officer and a gentleman."
Leadership
"The correct way to walk is directly ahead."
Humor
"That's funny, that's very funny, but I don't like the idea at all."
Humor
"One more run and the world would be yours."
Motivation
"You're wasting your time."
Time
"I have to keep increasing the number of missions or Headquarters will think I'm going soft."
Power
"You're in the army now. No one is more powerful than a colonel."
Power
"I've got to do something about Yossarian."
Power
"God has given me the strength to do anything."
Faith