Quotes by Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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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 — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's domi — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist. — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts. — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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' — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perc — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The highest distinction is service to others. — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day w — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first plac — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone w — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those di — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct rel — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologie — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence or — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
...So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing th — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War