Author of quotes: Max Brooks

The beast, rising from the dead, incomparable with those that live in our souls.

Lying is neither good nor bad. Like fire, it can warm and it can burn.

Fighting in a war, we are always preparing for the next.

... one who is respected, it seems higher than it really is.

It's as old as... I don't know, probably as old as war itself. It's fear, dude, just fear and don't need to be fucking Confucius to know: the point of war is not to kill or maim the guy, but to scare him and be done with it. To break the spirit, that's what does every successful army since fighting tribal coloring and ending with "blitzkrieg," or... what was the name of the first phase of the second Gulf war, "Shock and awe"? Well, "Shock and awe"!

Russia, my Russia, was nothing but an apolitical mess. We lived in chaos and corruption, we were just trying to get through the day. Even the army was no Bastion of patriotism - just a place where you can get a profession, food and shelter, and sometimes a little money to send home when the government decided to pay his soldiers. "Oath to protect the Motherland?" My generation did not know such words. You could hear it from the veterans of the great Patriotic war, broken, insane idiots who precipitated Red square with a tattered Soviet flag in his hands and rows of medals pinned to the faded, moth-eaten form.

Is it possible to "solve" the problem of poverty? Or even crime? Disease, unemployment, war, or other social ailments? No, damn it. You can hope for is to try to keep everything under control, giving people the opportunity to live in peace. This is not cynicism, is a Mature approach. You can't stop the rain. You can only build a roof...

Many do not believe that can happen until it happens. It's not stupidity or weakness, just human nature.

- You carried a gun?
I lived in Rio. What do I have to carry in your pocket?

Mr. Miller, in addition to the usual heart disease, had the misfortune to suffer an extremely rare genetic defect of dextrocardia with situs inversus. His organs lay in their exact opposite - the liver is on the left, the heart to the right and so on. You know, the problem we faced. We couldn't have just transplanted a conventional heart and turning it the other way. It is not stall to work. We needed another fresh, healthy heart from a donor with the same defect. Where else would we have such happiness, if not in China?

Yes, there was racism, and classism. You're a powerful corporate lawyer, whole life reviewing contracts, made deals, talked on the phone. That's what you are good at, that's what made you rich and what allowed you to hire a plumber to fix your toilet, which allowed you to keep talking on the phone. The more you work, the more money you earn, the more servants are hired, so they freed you time to work. That's the way the world is. But one day everything collapses. Nobody wants to enter into a contract or transaction. All we need is toilets fixed. And suddenly that peon is your teacher, maybe even your boss. For some, this was scarier than the living dead.

I don't know if great times make great men, but they can kill them.

... to show a different side, one that makes people get up out of bed the next morning, makes you fight for your life because someone tells them it'll be OK. For that kind of lie there is one name. Hope.

Have you heard about the experiment, which was conducted by an American journalist in Moscow in the seventies? He stood at a door of an ordinary, unremarkable building. Shortly after him arose another, then another and another. In the blink of an eye there was a line length of a quarter. Nobody was asking. Every thought just, then it's worth it.