Plagued, with Guilt Quotes

“minuscule bacteria known as yersinia pestis. Even seven centuries ago diseases liked to use the latest improvements in human transportation to introduce themselves to new hosts.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Undaunted, nature would soon forget the passage of man and return to its routine, tireless and eternal.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“the enraged men fell upon one another, violence having long since become their only catharsis.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“One Colonel listened to his harrowing tale and simply shook his head. "Next time, just let us know, Son." Halfus had spent all those days of planning and fretting about his escape route, when what he really should have done was find a cell phone or Internet connection. They would have found a way to come and get him.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“What had Nietzsche said? A living thing seeks to discharge its strength.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“my father always blamed herself”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Most good legends were based on a kernel of truth, shrouded in layers of ignorance and imagination.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“The Toba supervolcanic eruption occurred approximately seventy thousand years ago in Sumatra, Indonesia.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“the single biggest killer of the Civil War. Fully two-thirds of the soldiers who lost their lives in the war died from the ravages of disease, not wounds.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Sometimes it was better to say goodbye quickly than to watch your hope slowly drain away”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Shibboleths—like racism, nationalism, sexism, and homophobia—represent a part of humankind's boundless ability to subdivide itself, bonding through rejection, aligning through differences, and uplifting the few through repression of many.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“As many as several thousand people were slain in an event that came to be known as the Parsley Massacre.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“doctors still did not have a name for this last stage, but the street did. It was being called feralization, the unfortunate souls suffering from it now colloquially known as ferals.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“There are certain parallels between war and disease. Anyone unfortunate enough to be caught up in either should take all appropriate precautions, but it is an inescapable truth that there will always be a certain amount of uncertainty involved.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Psychopathy most accurately fits the characterization of a genetic illness. No amount of good parenting will cure a child born with an absolute disregard for rules, morals, and the welfare of other people.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Psychopaths, on the other hand, have a complete detachment from others and act solely in their own self-interest. They are perfectly aware of”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“There is no single clinical distinction between psychopathy and sociopathy.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“A living thing seeks to discharge its strength.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“the resistance to these vaccinations is one step toward reversing the trend toward longer, healthier lifespans. For all their many virtues, humans do not seem to be very skilled at threat assessment.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Measles has killed hundreds of millions of people throughout history, and even today accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. The disease was almost entirely eliminated in America by modern vaccination programs in the late twentieth century, but a rising anti-vaccination movement has led to a predictable uptick in the number of cases.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Morality is a nebulous concept. An obvious act of misconduct to one might be easily defensible to another.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“When Sinclair wrote of slaughterhouse employees falling into grinders to be mixed with the beef, he was attempting to call attention to the harrowing plight of workers and not to the repulsive quality of meat.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Sinclair worked undercover in the meatpacking plants of Chicago, then used the experience to detail the deplorable conditions of the industry in his 1906 novel The Jungle.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“American novelist and muckraker Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland during the tumultuous post Civil War-era.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“not every enemy combatant was a terrorist. They were not even always willing participants.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Mosquitoes account for the deaths of roughly one million people per year. The only creature that even comes close to matching this total is humans”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Will and discipline. It always came down to will and discipline. One side was doing a job. The other wanted to fight.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“you are not victims anymore. Now you are the cause of death and suffering”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“You come to fight terrorism," he repeated. "And what happens? There are more terrorists than ever.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“The booklet that had sparked that whole health-nut phase was entitled "Paradise Health.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt