Blake Banner > Quotes

“Most people are too damned stupid to be worth the effort.”
― Blake Banner, An Ace and A Pair

“To feel nothing is more painful than to feel pain.”
― Blake Banner, Two Bare Arms

“His thesis was that there was, indeed, a revolution in the years between 1967 to 1970, but that the establishment won the war and from that time on systematically crushed and repressed free thought and free expression.”
― Blake Banner, Dead and Buried

“Western alliances can mobilize a million men to go to war against a dictator who snatches a few oil wells from his neighbor, and will invest trillions of dollars in such a war. But faced with a crisis that threatens to cause famine and death on a global scale, they sit and talk, question the validity of the evidence, discuss economics and blame, have conferences and recommend recycling plastic bags…”
― Blake Banner, Kill: Four

“love is a powerful cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones, primarily oxytocin, dopamine, estrogen, and testosterone, that drive the most powerful elements of love,”
― Blake Banner, The Heart to Kill

“It appeared to promise a future in which everybody would smile and all behavior would be ‘appropriate’, all genders and all races would be not so much equal as the same, though displayed in an appropriate rainbow of aesthetically pleasing variations on a theme. And that theme was to be inoffensive. Inoffensive to whom was not clear—a great abstract United Nations ideal, where nobody would ever disagree because nobody ever asked difficult questions. Because difficult questions could be offensive. And therefore inappropriate.”
― Blake Banner, The Omega Series Box Set: Books 1-3

“But I have a hunch that maybe, maybe thinking, and living, on purpose is important.”
― Blake Banner, Fallen Angels

“You know what happens to very careful people?” ​“I know you’re going to tell me.” ​“Nothing, Jane. Nothing happens to very careful people. And then they die, with nothing ever having happened to them.”
― Blake Banner, Simple Kill

“at the quiet, leafy street, thinking about Freud’s words, ‘…we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object, or its love.”
― Blake Banner, The Dead Cold Series: Books 9-12

“They were all walking the prescribed path from birth to death in bewildered obedience, guided by their omnipresent screens, living out their moments by accident, never quite knowing why, until it was too late and it was all over. ​And then, I told myself as I watched them flow past, painted amber by the streetlamps and the shop fronts, as they are lowered into the ground, all their yesterdays having done nothing but light a dusty path to death, those they leave behind will say, with empty, borrowed wisdom, “He had a good life.”
― Blake Banner, Riding the Devil

“upbraided,”
― Blake Banner, Dying Breath

“his”
― Blake Banner, Dying Breath

“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

“Freud’s words, ‘…we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object, or its love.”
― Blake Banner, The Dead Cold Series: Books 9-12

“while allowing any COVID-19 virus that happened to be around free passage.”
― Blake Banner, Quantum Kill

“Surely the characteristic that defined the human race was the willingness to destroy other people in order to achieve our own purpose.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“sense of the situation. People are skeptical about NLP,”
― Blake Banner, The Einstaat Brief

“This is now a woman’s world, where the great virtues are empathy, compassion, dialogue..”
― Blake Banner, Omega Box Set #3: Books 8-10

“He is not only a man with a heart and a soul, he has a brain too, and he makes all three of those things work together.”
― Blake Banner, LA: Wild Justice

“The guys I had here were like a gang of lobotomized moral philosophers at a cannabis convention. So the plan had to be simple.”
― Blake Banner, The Omega Series Box Set: Books 1-3

“Take this thought into the next world with you, Napoleon. People who live like you, people who do the kind of things you do, people who believe it’s OK to make other people suffer—bad things end up happening to people like you.”
― Blake Banner, The Devil's Vengeance

“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

“They’re both as crazy as a box of frogs.”
― Blake Banner, A Dead Cold Box Set

“Napoleon once said, ‘When in doubt, do nothing.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“putative”
― Blake Banner, The Dead Cold Series: Books 5-8

“When you put men into uniforms, they leave their humanity in the changing rooms.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“Do not look into the eyes of your enemy, lest you become your enemy.”
― Blake Banner, The Silent Blade

“It has been clear since Albert Bandura’s development of social cognitive theory in the early 1960s”
― Blake Banner, The Omega Series Box Set: Books 5-8

“but it had somehow acquired a kind of venerable integrity based entirely on its uniqueness, the way a good, hundred-year-old fake accrues a value all its own.”
― Blake Banner, LA: Wild Justice

“Do not look into your enemy’s eyes, lest you become your enemy.”
― Blake Banner, LA: Wild Justice