Max Brooks Quotes About World War Z
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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.
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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
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[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.
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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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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.
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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
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Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
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Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
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I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
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The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts
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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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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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If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.
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. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.
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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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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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