World War Z Quotes

“They say eleven million people died that winter, and that’s just in North America.”

“The movie and the book? [They] really don't have a lot in common. They got a great title!”

“First of all, there was no way to save everyone. The outbreak was too far gone.”

“The opening bombardment took out at least three-quarters of them. Only three-quarters.”

“'''The facts were out; it was now a question of who would believe them.'''''-Bob Archer, Director of the CIA”

“We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead. That's all I'm going to say.”

“I think most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. (p. 249)”

“I remember thinking, This had better be damned serious. Once I saw their faces, I regretted my wish.”

“We were also under strict orders not to move the civilians. Even worse, we were ordered not to inform them of our departure!”

“Immediately we began to see bodies, men killed by their own booby traps. They looked like they’d been trying…running…to get out.”

“Paul Redeker always believed, well, perhaps not always, but at least in his adult life, that humanity’s one fundamental flaw was emotion.”

“We knew Phalanx was a placebo, and we were grateful for it. It calmed people down and let us do our job.-''Grover Carlson, former White House Chief of Staff ''”

“Why do you need Stealth aircraft against an enemy that doesn't have radar?”

“The swarm continued among the cars, literally eating its way up the stalled lines, all those poor bastards just trying to get away. And that’s what haunts me most about it, they weren’t headed anywhere.”

“They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don’t teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they’re trying to “help” you see “the truth.””

“No one would have expected [the escalation of nuclear hostilities], but then again, no one would have expected the dead to rise, now would they? Only one could have foreseen this, and I don’t believe in him anymore.”

“The Allies had the resources, industry, and logistics of an entire planet. The Axis, on the other hand, had to depend on what scant assets they could scrape up within their borders. This time we were the Axis.”

“I know a lot of credit has been heaped upon the South African war plan, and deservedly so, but if more people had read our report and worked to make its recommendations a reality, then that plan would have never needed to exist.”

“Last week I was listening to the radio and happened to hear [name withheld for legal reasons]. He was doing his usual thing- fart jokes and adolescent sexuality- and I remember thinking, "This man survived and my parents didn't."”

“The first labor survey stated clearly that over 65 percent of the present civilian workforce were classified F-6, possessing no valued vocation. We required a massive job retraining program. In short, we needed to get a lot of white collars dirty.”