Michael Jason Brandt > Quotes

“the enraged men fell upon one another, violence having long since become their only catharsis.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Undaunted, nature would soon forget the passage of man and return to its routine, tireless and eternal.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“minuscule bacteria known as yersinia pestis. Even seven centuries ago diseases liked to use the latest improvements in human transportation to introduce themselves to new hosts.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Mankind is quite literally losing its history. Historians and archaeologists are the warriors serving on the front lines in this entropic war against time.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“the single biggest killer of the Civil War. Fully two-thirds of the soldiers who lost their lives in the war died from the ravages of disease, not wounds.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Measles has killed hundreds of millions of people throughout history, and even today accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. The disease was almost entirely eliminated in America by modern vaccination programs in the late twentieth century, but a rising anti-vaccination movement has led to a predictable uptick in the number of cases.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Morality is a nebulous concept. An obvious act of misconduct to one might be easily defensible to another.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“solitary US Route 15 skirts along the mountainsides, bisecting the Mason-Dixon Line at its midpoint, providing view after glorious view of the topography.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Shibboleths—like racism, nationalism, sexism, and homophobia—represent a part of humankind's boundless ability to subdivide itself, bonding through rejection, aligning through differences, and uplifting the few through repression of many.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Iraq was no desert—it was an ocean of money.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Psychopaths, on the other hand, have a complete detachment from others and act solely in their own self-interest. They are perfectly aware of”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“One Colonel listened to his harrowing tale and simply shook his head. "Next time, just let us know, Son." Halfus had spent all those days of planning and fretting about his escape route, when what he really should have done was find a cell phone or Internet connection. They would have found a way to come and get him.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“The Toba supervolcanic eruption occurred approximately seventy thousand years ago in Sumatra, Indonesia.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“In 732 A.D. the Battle of Tours, also known as the Battle of Poitiers, was fought in central France.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“not every enemy combatant was a terrorist. They were not even always willing participants.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Will and discipline. It always came down to will and discipline. One side was doing a job. The other wanted to fight.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“What had Nietzsche said? A living thing seeks to discharge its strength.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“There is no single clinical distinction between psychopathy and sociopathy.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“It is in the best interest of the opposition party to prevent any actual good from happening, for fear that the ruling party will claim and receive credit—which”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“The Song of Roland is one of the earliest works of French literature. It is an epic poem about Charlemagne's foray into Spain to battle the Saracen king Marsilla. Fearing defeat, Marsilla agrees to convert to Christianity and reward Charlemagne with treasure if the French ruler withdraws from Iberia. Charlemagne agrees and leads his army north. His rearguard is led by Roland, Charlemagne's greatest knight. Charlemagne and Roland are betrayed by the latter's own stepfather, Ganelon, who informs Marsilla how to ambush the rearguard in the Pyrenees mountain passes.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“doctors still did not have a name for this last stage, but the street did. It was being called feralization, the unfortunate souls suffering from it now colloquially known as ferals.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Sinclair worked undercover in the meatpacking plants of Chicago, then used the experience to detail the deplorable conditions of the industry in his 1906 novel The Jungle.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Mesopotamia was the location of the earliest known human civilization, dating at least back to 3000 BC and possibly earlier.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“When Sinclair wrote of slaughterhouse employees falling into grinders to be mixed with the beef, he was attempting to call attention to the harrowing plight of workers and not to the repulsive quality of meat.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“When war comes to a region, one of the first and most defenseless casualties is the treasure of history.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“you are not victims anymore. Now you are the cause of death and suffering”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Mosquitoes account for the deaths of roughly one million people per year. The only creature that even comes close to matching this total is humans”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“Sometimes it was better to say goodbye quickly than to watch your hope slowly drain away”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“I think whatever I ate last night is trying to claw its way out of me.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt

“the Spanish Flu, which circumnavigated the globe two times over between 1918 and 1919. As much as a third of the world population became infected, and between fifty and one hundred million died.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt