Michael Bunker > Quotes

“Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.”
― Michael Bunker, Surviving Off Off-Grid

“Life often goes along in a stream. The details float by like a leaf on a river. The current is pushing and pulling the leaf, but we do not see it because we are standing on the banks of the river. There are moments when the leaf is caught up in little eddies. Events pile up. They gather like twigs--like flotsam and jetsam--caught up in the stream of life. Time blocks and unblocks in little bursts at such places. Information pours through like water. The details crystallize. Various pressures and turbulences in the river, pouring into the sea of life, push and pull, but we do not see it. We do not see the leaf or the pushing and pulling.”
― Michael Bunker, The WICK Omnibus Edition

“Even the simplest of God’s animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won’t ever break the world.”
― Michael Bunker, The Peaceful Kind

“You can’t force people to be thankful just because in your mind they seem to benefit from what you’re doing… especially when what you’re doing is something you would do anyway, even without them as an excuse.”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.”
― Michael Bunker, Brother, Frank

“Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.”
― Michael Bunker, The WICK Omnibus Edition

“It took more paper than ever to support the paperless society.”
― Michael Bunker, All Quiet in the Amish Zone

“it was like ’65 or ’68 again,”
― Michael Bunker, From the Indie Side

“It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“Roscoe’s dead. I loved him, but he’s gone now. Besides, if I was the one who croaked, I’d want him to be happy.”
― Michael Bunker, Osage Two Diamonds

“But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it’s just not usually the best one.”
― Michael Bunker, All Quiet in the Amish Zone

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― Michael Bunker, The Silo Archipelago

“fought, it was usually more trouble than it was”
― Michael Bunker, The Last Pilgrims

“The technology to control and destroy people always has in it the seeds of tyranny, and is forever subject to the lowest angels of human nature.”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“we know that population growth does not just magically spawn productivity. Building factories and stocking them full of people does not mystically produce either raw materials or good ideas.”
― Michael Bunker, The Peaceful Kind

“The questions piled up like the firewood he would stack just outside the back door back home. ”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“Dystopia is just someone’s failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a “shift” that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger (“Soylent Green”), to a tornado (the “Wizard of Oz”) to a deadly virus (my story, “Apocalypse Conspiracy).”
― Michael Bunker, A Taste of Tomorrow 2 - The Dystopian Boxed Set

“The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears, and when he is locked down by his own slavish desires for a comfortable life.”
― Michael Bunker, Surviving Off Off-Grid

“Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?”
― Michael Bunker, The Headcovering

“If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth.”
― Michael Bunker, The Silo Archipelago

“The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man’s hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The”
― Michael Bunker, Hugh Howey Must Die!

“Inherent in the power to make men free by force is the power to enslave them again,”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“Truth be told, most people would not be comfortable if they had to live permanently where their opinions and worldview naturally led.”
― Michael Bunker, From the Indie Side

“Even in those historical moments when men look back and see patriotism and sacrifice as the driving forces of history, 'the majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.”
― Michael Bunker, The WICK Omnibus Edition

“No one wanted to get sent to Oklahoma, and that was exactly what would happen to you if you got out of line”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania

“he has never learned the difference between an adjective and an adverb.”
― Michael Bunker, From the Indie Side

“And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward an inevitable, and violent, climax.”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn’t close enough, or when enough generations have passed so that the reality of hardship and persecution ceases to be real, the threats fade. They take on the quality of interesting fiction.”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus

“country road on the day they first viewed the property.  She had taken one look at it as they drove into the driveway and said she was ready to buy if he was.  In a forest thick with trees, that solitary tree had always been his favorite.  It was where he’d hung that lazy tire”
― Michael Bunker, Wick

“within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.”
― Michael Bunker, Pennsylvania Omnibus