Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War Quotes

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.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

The highest distinction is service to others.

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.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.