Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Max Brooks
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.”
“Adversity introduces us to ourselves.”
“People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.”
“Why are we always looking for someone else to save us instead of trying to save ourselves?”
“I heard a theory once that if aliens ever do come calling, they may very well be hostile, because the same brains that mastered spaceflight learned to think by hunting.”
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”
“The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.”
“I think the human mind isn’t comfortable with mysteries. We’re always looking for answers to the unexplained. And if an answer can’t come from facts, we’ll try to cobble one together from old stories.”
“They all want to live “in harmony with nature” before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious.”
“Injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you. That’s why most weapons of war are designed to injure instead of kill. Wounded are more of a drain than the dead.”
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Book Keywords:
self, society, self-realization, democratic-socialism, community, socialism, adversity, reliance, reliance-on-others
