Isolating Contact Quotes

“For all our technological and societal advancements, mankind was still an infant holding a rocket launcher. We weren't ready, we aren't ready, and we may very well never be ready.

'Our first contact was an isolating contact... Let's hope it won't be our last.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact

“It was only in the absence of the outside world that we were able to form the type of connection humans were capable of but had forgotten.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact

“The history of Earth would be forgotten and rewritten by the victors. It would be as though we'd never existed, and the only thing standing between our species and total erasure was the crew that I was assembling.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact

“I'm brave, not stupid.'

'Bravery and stupidity are rarely mutually exclusive.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact

“Hundreds of millions dead. Billions more driven to hysterical violence and chaos. It was a zombie apocalypse triggered by the simple virus of fear.

I couldn't help but cry.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact

“There was nowhere to go. Nothing to run from. No power, no emergency services, and no hope.

... The basic instinct of survival caused them to become what humans are at our core. Wild animals who ignore thousands of years of domestication at the first opportunity to go primal.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact

“Our egos crashed against each other as we fought over the minutiae of how to save the world. The answer was right there in front of us, but we had been too stubborn and self-absorbed to see it.

The only thing that could save humanity was humanity. Our humanity.”
― Ash Remington, Isolating Contact