Greg Mitchell > Quotes

“Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.”
― Greg Mitchell

“Maybe for all our technology and fancy talking phones and smart cars, we're still just primitives huddled around the fire- or, ya know, the electronic glow of screens, whatever- trying not to look too closely into the dark where the beasts are.”
― Greg Mitchell

“He only earns his freedom who daily conquers anew. —Goethe, Faust”
― Greg Mitchell, The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill

“Man always sought to divide themselves when they ought to remain united against devilkind. Their folly, but Chemosh's gain.”
― Greg Mitchell, Hell's Dark Riders: A Tale of The Coming Evil

“sign of things to come, radioactive particles were detected over San Francisco a few days later, and after that over Paris, bringing this “fallout” threat to wide public attention for the first time. Also endangered were the forty thousand U.S. sailors and soldiers who had been crowded cavalierly nearby, or who mounted the ships later to inspect or clean them—with safety guidelines widely ignored—and were exposed to troubling levels of radiation.”
― Greg Mitchell, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

“Capitalists," he argued, "will not agree to any social progress completely eliminating unemployment because such a program would reduce the supply of cheap labor. You will never persuade a capitalist to cause himself losses for the sake of satisfying people's needs.”
― Greg Mitchell, The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics