Max Brooks Quotes About War

• We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on 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.”-World War Z

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  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.83, Broadway Books

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• You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

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• They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

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• We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

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  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

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  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

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  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.

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  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

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