Dead Man Talking Quotes

“smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them. Gallin”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“​I shuddered and the wind threw a couple of wet, bronze leaves at my ankles. I kicked them off”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“I remembered Nero telling me once that smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“Each forbidden cigarette, each safety belt fastened, each crash helmet worn, each blasphemy law enacted, is a landmark on the road to Dystopia.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“The Norsemen, indeed the northern tribes back into the Paleolithic age, would laugh at the notion of the gods dictating what you may and may not eat. It would be absurd, incomprehensible! But to the Sumerians, and those who followed them through Abraham and Sarah, this micromanagement was essential to control. Here was the birth of the hive-mind, part and parcel of the birth of modern, urban civilization. Put people in clay cells, separate them from the land, from the natural cycles of the Earth, tell them what to eat, what to drink, what to think, and above all, what not to think. Here is temporal power!”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“that membership of a special club—whether it’s a religion, a priesthood, an aristocracy or political movement—can drive people crazy to the point of believing themselves superior…” I turned to Pamela and added, “and with the right of life and death over entire races.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“He loved mankind, it was people he couldn’t stand.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon’s Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso’s people with both eyes on the same side of their face.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“Today visionaries have access to the technology to upgrade humanity, and terminate the race in the process. Yesterday’s visionaries are today’s messiahs and angels of death.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“He said we had become redundant to ourselves”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking