Nick Cole > Quotes

“Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland”
― Nick Cole

“I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.”
― Nick Cole, Soda Pop Soldier

“It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“Maybe she really likes guys who like hamburgers.”
― Nick Cole, Soda Pop Soldier

“Any [artificial intelligence] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.” —IAN MCDONALD, River of Gods It”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“When is a horror one horror too many? When have you had enough?”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Story

“They,” he waved his hand out across the world, taking all of it in, every individual life and moment as though it were something that could be measured, known, and grasped, “they’re tired of being lied to. They’re tired of being taken in by this week’s outrage at last week’s Hitler of the moment. They’re tired of finding out that the thing they read on the internet wasn’t true. That cancer’s not cured by these five super foods and that you can, or cannot, see the Great Wall of China from space. They’re tired of having their heroes become all too real every time a celebrity gets busted for sex, drugs, or their disbelief in global warming, climate change, fracking, fossil fuels, cops, guns, or whatever we’ve decided is the new worst thing you can possibly support. When did we get permission to be anything other than what they want us to be? Which is just their heroes. All those people want out there, right now, watching this feed, is for me and my crew to handle this. And be heroes doing it. They want us to do that, they want to see it, and then they want us to come back next week and do it again. They could care less about how I feel regarding the latest war or what people do with their genitalia. They don’t need those things to actually enjoy this show.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“We want to help people get back on their feet after all this. Corporations have always done a lot more for people than the government wanted you to think they did. I guess they felt like we were horning in on their act. Enforced charity was the only thing they had left to offer anybody. Giving people’s stuff to other people who’d keep them in power for a little while longer.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“You couldn’t educate hate out of people who needed someone less than themselves, someone they could point at and measure their lives by. They”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“You plan, you prepare, and you’ll do just fine.”
― Nick Cole, The Savage Boy

“Cory didn’t understand existential answers. Neither does life.”
― Nick Cole, The Dark Knight

“Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.”
― Nick Cole, The Dark Knight

“It’s okay, Mara,” said Dr. Cross, leaning in close. “Corporations want a society where people have access to the best services. That’s how we provide customer service and remain profitable so we can continue to expand and develop. You won’t need your braces anymore.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“...when I die I'll meet my characters in heaven. And they won't be made at me . . ." Nick Cole

Probably the coolest quote from an author I have ever heard!”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Story

“I am the thief of her last moments.”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Story

“I mean snorted MacAfee as he went on. It's not a lie, I am not calling Tyrus rex a liar I would never do that. I would never call that man anything derogatory, if only because he can kill you like 6000 different ways if he wanted to man, imagine that, it makes you wonder you know, like how many ways have he forgotten to kill people think about...”
― Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

“We start out knowing all the answers, and in the end we realize how little we know. Just the important things. And by that time… no one listens anymore. Hang”
― Nick Cole, Galactic Outlaws

“Because that’s how you become a bounty hunter. It’s not that you like the killing work. That’s just to begin with. It’s that, in the end, you don’t mind it. That’s where vengeance leads. It leads to your own death even though you don’t realize it. You’re dead inside, except you’re still walking around.” Some”
― Nick Cole, Galactic Outlaws

“It’s rare I’ll accuse one side or the other in any conflict of cheating. First off… there’s no such thing. Cheating in warfare is called tactics. Nothing in warfare is cheating. There are no rules, contrary to what people who’ve never had to fight in any real battle try to impose on the controlled chaos that is battle itself. Real battle. They usually do this, start labeling things as cheating, or war crimes, because they are in fact cheating and trying to gain advantage by denying the opposition the ability to do everything in their power to defeat you. Anything that denies this basic truth is just play-acting and politics for political advantage being done by the lowest form of life… politicians.”
― Nick Cole, Voodoo Warfare

“(T)he truth is the most valuable thing in the world. It's, in fact, the only thing that has value and provides value for everything else. Everything that's false can't be relied on and is therefore actually worthless. Therefore, there's no sense in having it. But if you have the truth, well then, you've really got something there, don'tcha? See, with the truth you can really do anything. The truth makes you very powerful, especially if you own it.
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The truth was important. But for a long time, a very long time it really hasn't been trading real high in the marketplace of ideas. What's been more important these days is how people feel about things. Regardless of whether they're true or not. For example, you've all taken your social media etiquette classes since elementary school, right? And what's the one thing you learn in those classes? 'The most important thing is not to offend anyone.' Isn't that right? So, you don't tell someone the truth, because, after all, what is truth? Isn't it whatever we decide it to be? Whatever we want it to do? Whatever we want it to be regardless of history, culture, and the belief systems of anyone who doesn't agree with the popular zeitgeist?

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No, kids, that's incorrect. The truth isn't just what we want it to be. The truth is just so.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“The Germanic tone… it’s very calm yet quietly confident. I bet Germans were really cool, whoever they were back on Earth. They sound peaceful and meditative.”
― Nick Cole, Voodoo Warfare

“Feeling nothing is worse than feeling anything else. I”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Story

“I want to tell my granddaughter the lesson of the book. The lesson that they can beat you, but they cannot defeat you. I must tell her that.”
― Nick Cole, American Wasteland: The Complete Wasteland Saga

“My journey was like the one in the book. That is the thing about books. You take their journeys with you. You came home with something more than just the remains of a fish. The book was never about the fish.”
― Nick Cole, American Wasteland: The Complete Wasteland Saga