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Max Brooks Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Blood, Sweat, Tears
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: zombies, Death
“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Imagination, Darkness, Light
“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Thinking, Time, Thoughts
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Lies, Fire, Liar
“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: humans, Human Nature, Beliefs
“We lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say ‘They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.’ The freedom, God help us, to say ‘I was only following orders.'”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Free, Freedom, Blame
“After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Government, Fighting, Getting Along
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. 'Fear,' he used to say, 'fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.' That blew me away. 'Turn on the TV,' he'd say. 'What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.' Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: Fear, Economics, History
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