Code of Conduct Quotes

“You ever work with a UN stabilization force?” Ash asked. Harvath shook his head. “Then trust me. As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. The cholera outbreak the old blue helmets caused in Haiti? Over ten thousand dead, and it has spread to the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The rapes and sex crimes they have committed in Mali and everywhere else? The stories of their depravity and brutality are legion.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Good luck with that, Harvath thought. In his experience, life was predominantly made up of three distinct groups: sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. And if there was one thing he had learned from a lifetime of hunting wolves and protecting sheep, it was that sheep had two speeds—graze and stampede. Now that word was out that the virus was loose, all bets were off. Very soon, chaos was going to ensue. “What else do you have?” he asked, bracing himself for more bad news. “The pharmaceutical companies Damien’s involved with appear pretty benign. One focuses on dementia medication and the other on birth control drugs.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Malthus believed that a Utopian society could never be achieved as long as the world’s population was allowed to continue to grow unchecked. The only way to protect the earth and improve the existence of mankind was to have less of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“My point is that bureaucrats—like everyone else—have a mind-set. The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In fact, they begin to believe that certain groups of citizens are the root of the nation’s problems. They see them as a threat. If those citizens can be brought to heel, the bureaucracy sees itself as doing the citizenry at large a greater good, actually making their lives better.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“1. Decrease current human population below five hundred million and keep it in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity. 3. Unite humanity with a “living” new language. 4. Redistribute global wealth under the more acceptable term “global public goods.” 5. Rebalance personal rights with “social duties.” 6. Replace passion, faith, and tradition with reason. 7. Make clever use of new technologies to go around national governments and establish direct ties with citizens. 8. Rebrand global governance as equitable, efficient, and the logical next step in human evolution. 9. Discredit, delegitimize, and dismantle the idea of the nation state/national sovereignty. 10. Prepare a mechanism to neutralize any challenges to United Nations’ authority.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, ‘Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“As a living organism, the Federal Government’s number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“The rain forests of the Congo Basin contained so much water that they caused their own weather system, and were known as the “Lungs of Africa.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn’t win by thinking inside the box and following someone else’s rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing—how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government’s number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“, and were known as the “Lungs of Africa.” Harvath had operated in plenty of jungles, and he had never liked any of them. He hated humidity. He preferred the high desert. High altitude and cold were his favorites. Jungles were just plain dangerous. You not only had to worry about bad guys but everything else lurking out there that wanted to eat you too. Then there was the orchestra of noise. One sound layered upon the next. There was so much of it, it was hard to think, much less listen for any indication of danger. You had no way of knowing if what you had heard was”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Montrachet.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“less of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“only easy day was yesterday, Failure”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, ‘Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“I know what a bar is, you nonce.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“CHAPTER 31 The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park stretched a hundred eighty-five miles from Georgetown”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Moving like a cold wind through the capitals of Europe, Harvath was Death.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“Department of Homeland Security. “Each one of them is mid- to upper-level management in their agencies.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“You can’t always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“You can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power.” —JULIUS CAESAR”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct