The Passengers Quotes

“A priest I knew once told me “a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“When people are part of a mob, they stop being individuals, their inhibitions disappear, they don't follow their normal moral compass (...) when they're surrounded by like-minded people, they don't see themselves as violent individuals, it's the group that's responsible for the violence, not them personally.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“I suggest you think of social media as a river. It begins in one place but the further it travels, the more it meanders in different directions. Some new routes dry up quickly, others take on directions all of their own. Everyone has an opinion.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“Nothing disappears any more,’ shrugged Cadman. ‘Everything is somewhere. All that’s private becomes public in the end.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“The British people have been nothing but data since William I carried out the first census for the Domesday book in 1086,” he began. “All we are, and all we have ever been, are statistics, so let’s not pretend this is a catastrophic crisis that risks tearing apart the very moral fibre of our society. How do you think you are approved for credit cards and loans? How are decisions made on what you pay for insurance? How do we decide the number of immigrants allowed into our country? Acquired data. All that’s happened here is that we’ve reached a new level in our history where decisions have been made as to your importance to your country.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”. That’s how I’ve lived my life.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“to get out of here.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“Despite threats to their kids’ lives, they still prioritise sharing their fears with the world before they scuttle off to rescue their little ones. Share then react. I love it.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“When people are part of a mob, they stop being individuals, their inhibitions disappear, they don’t follow their normal moral compass.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“You’re a statistician who doesn’t understand the value of human life because you live in a virtual reality surrounded by other avatars equally as devoid of empathy as you. You are worse than artificial intelligence because at least AI can be programmed to care.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“Claire was acutely aware that if she were freed from the car, she would need to vanish from the scene—and vanish quickly. Nobody could discover the truth about what she had done before her hijacking until long after she had gone to ground.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“Claire recalled how some years before they’d met, geneticists had discovered all humans carried a gene shared by just one other person in the world. That person was apparently the one genetically made for you – the person you were destined to fall in love with. They could be of any age, any sex, any religion and in any location.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“You could personally travel to each one of those schools, deactivate every explosive device yourself, and then single-handedly save the lives of every Passenger. Yet some troll in a council flat in Hackney with split ends and badly spelled tattoos will still complain you’ve set woman’s rights back a decade because you did it while wearing a skirt.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“You deserve an equal, Libby, someone who can treat you as well as you treat them. And as much as I’d love to be that man, it’s just not me. You’d have a patient, not a partner.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.’ That’s how I’ve lived my life.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers