Devolution Quotes

“Communication implies intelligence, which implies an innate desire for peace.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“RYSSDAL: Suck on that, Elon Musk. TONY: No, no, I love Elon, he’s a good guy, but he does have some catching up to do.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Wasn’t this strategy, painting victory over defeat, the motive behind so many past wars?”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“El hambre es la mejor salsa.” Hunger is the best sauce!”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Need. That’s what makes a village. That’s what we are now, and what holds us together is need. I won’t help you if you don’t help me. That is the social contract.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —LEON C. MEGGINSON, professor of management and marketing at Louisiana State University, 1963”
― Max Brooks, Devolution

“They all want to live “in harmony with nature” before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. —CORDELL HULL, secretary of state to President”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“and moaned what I think is the word “sploosh” (a reference to his favorite show, Archer).”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Why? Why are we always looking for someone else to save us instead of trying to save ourselves?”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Same room, different priorities.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“When you’re feeling small and scared—which, let’s be honest, is pretty much how I feel all the time—isn’t it okay, just for a moment, to want someone, something bigger than you to have all the answers, to have everything under control?”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Allow the forest to heal you,” she said. “Release your pain. This land gives you permission to unburden yourself with each step.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Why do I go there? Where’s my, what do you call it, “ego-defense mechanism”?”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“This was a time when university profs were getting hit from both sides; the right with their creationist agenda, and the left who’d suddenly realized the connection between science and war.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“When you're here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That's been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we've created so much distance from it.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“And yes, I know I saw something. We both did. But knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“But is it so wrong to want to be watched over? When you’re feeling small and scared—which, let’s be honest, is pretty much how I feel all the time—isn’t it okay, just for a moment, to want someone, something bigger than you to have all the answers, to have everything under control?”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Yvette’s eyes flashed this microburst of anger at her husband, so subtle but so hot that I felt my stomach gurgle. And when she turned that look on Dan, I nose-burped acid. She spat, “Do you know that? Do you know what mountain lions are like? Do you know that it wasn’t just scared by us all and trying to get away, and now it’s hurt unnecessarily, and what you did could’ve provoked it to attack…kill Palomino!”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre