Dead of Night Quotes

“What you do with your life is your business. But what you do with mine is my business. I have seen too many people die and get maimed in the name of equality. War is not about equality. It’s about inequality. The toughest, the strongest and the meanest win. The weakest die.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“There are two things you need to remember in this world, Bauer: one, the most valuable commodity on this planet is not oil and it is not heroin. It is violence. He who has the most violence available to him, is the most powerful man on Earth. And the reason for that is the second thing you need to remember: the law we hold so dear is nothing more nor less than rules supported by the threat of violence. He who controls the violence, makes the law.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“War is not about equality. It’s about inequality. The toughest, the strongest and the meanest win. The weakest die.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“A pseudo ideology is a petulant, infantile demand that you should have the right to put my life at risk because of your gender. Dwarfs don’t make good netball players; six-foot-six guys who weigh eighteen stone are not good for dancing the part of Princess Odette in Swan Lake. They also make crap jockeys. So maybe the lifelong dream of the dwarf was to be a netball player, and maybe the muscle-bound giant always wanted to be a ballet dancer, or a jockey. That’s tough shit. It’s life. It doesn’t make society anti-dwarf or anti-giant, and a campaign to force netball teams to accept a percentage of dwarfs, and ballet companies to accept a percentage of giant men to dance women’s roles, would be stupid. That would be a pseudo ideology.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“Nominative determinism is a theory that says people gravitate toward jobs that fit their names, like Judge Laws, or a guy called Salmon might become a fishmonger…”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“​And pain never hurts so much as when it doesn’t make sense.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“Champs-Élysées,”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“But there is no denying that George V Avenue is easy on the eye and that that part of Paris has a unique, nostalgic charm evocative of an age which, from this point in history, seems saner and more human. ​I”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“if people read more, fewer of them would get shot.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night