2006-12-26 17:51:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It's from the novel by Joseph Heller. Catch 22 was a rule that was described in part by this passage: "Orr would be crazy to fly more missions, and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to." So it means that either way, you lose.
2006-12-26 17:59:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kacky 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catch-22 is, among other things, a general critique of bureaucratic operation and reasoning. The phrase "Catch-22" has come into common use to mean a "no-win situation or a double bind" of any type.
2006-12-26 18:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by Shooting stars 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Novel by Joseph Heller called Catch 22.
It is a situation where something has to be done to get results
but you need the results to get that something done.
It is usually quoted in bad situations but it is not a win-lose thing.
2006-12-29 15:34:24 · answer #3 · answered by Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a lousy earth! How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to blackguards for petty cash, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with an Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.
Heller once said, "Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?"
Robert M. Young, writing about Catch-22, answers, "For the most part, what they try to do is survive in any way they can."
2006-12-27 17:47:09 · answer #4 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its from this book by joeseph heller...(cool)...in really easy terms its lik heads i win tails u lose kind of a thing...
2006-12-27 01:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by samu 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your Damned if you do and your Damned if you don't.
2006-12-26 17:56:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋