Diary of an Assassin Quotes

“You have an illusion of control but in reality you have no control over your life. That is why people are so miserable, no? They believe they have control and keep trying to change things, but if things do not want to be changed, there is nothing you can do.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“You think pain makes us stronger?” “Those of us that see pain as a gift.” “My mother died of breast cancer when I was twelve. I would never see that as a gift.” “And that’s why you live in illusion. There is an entire world that you know nothing about, that you sleepwalk through without a hint that it is there. Your life is inauthentic. If you want an authentic life, you must go through pain. Intense pain that would break other people. And you must want to go through that pain.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“It made me stronger. You have nothing to be sorry about. Be sorry for those fools that have no pain in their lives. They are soft and weak. They fly in whatever direction the wind takes them because they have no direction.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“We are the monsters that hide under children’s beds and we cloak ourselves in flags and tell ourselves that what we do is for the greater good. The greater good always means that an atrocity is being committed against someone.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“It was amazing to her that the public didn’t ask how a congressman going into the house or senate making $90,000 per year came out a millionaire. It was a simple loophole: members of Congress were allowed to insider trade. When they found out that a piece of land was about to be developed or a major bank was going to be under investigation by the SEC, they simply bought the land or shorted that bank’s stocks. In Congress, a monkey with a few bucks could become a millionaire.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“Now, your own staff sold you out to the papers for a few bucks and the hatred between the parties was so deep, they could barely speak to each other in private much less be seen in public together. Each politician was after reelection and getting rich.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“there’s the world you think you know and the world that actually is. Some people don’t ever want to learn how the real world works. We’re the most hated nation on the planet but it’s extremely rare to have a terrorist attack on our soil.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“We’re riding on the wave that our Founding Fathers gave us, but every day that wave grows a little smaller. It’s the nature of democracy to become tyranny.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin

“You see the things under the surface of perceived reality and it changes you.”
― Victor Methos, Diary of an Assassin