Kyle Mills > Quotes

“It's interesting how a random event can change our lives in ways that would be impossible to imagine, isn't it?”
― Kyle Mills, The Immortalists

“Sometimes it was hard to discern judgment from coldness and self-absorption.”
― Kyle Mills, Free Fall

“The problem was that unimaginably stupid had become a job requirement in Washington.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“If everyone else is thinking right and left, you fucking well better be thinking up and down.”
― Kyle Mills, Order to Kill

“Things that burned bright burned short.”
― Kyle Mills, Order to Kill

“Ryan Steck lends me his unflagging passion and unparalleled knowledge of the Rappverse.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“(in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.”
― Kyle Mills, The Immortalists

“The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“I used to think that was what set me apart, you know? That I always did what I thought was right and didn't give much thought to consequences. But I think now it was just ego - that I'm no different than anybody else. Maybe everybody always does what they think is right and it's all just a matter of what you tell yourself the high ground is”
― Kyle Mills, Free Fall

“The West had become lost—struggling to remember what it was and losing sight of what it aspired to be.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“It was the fundamental flaw of democracy: Power found its way into the hands of liars and mobs instead of the cunning and the strong.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“People don’t want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“The political parties were no longer organizations concerned with administering the country’s affairs. They were election-winning machines.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“Napoleon said, ‘When your enemy is doing something stupid, don’t interfere.”
― Kyle Mills, Enemy of the State

“The country had a lengthy history of coups and the undeniable fact was that Pakistan performed better under military rule. The”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“Strife and chaos always traveled hand in hand with opportunity, though. It was just a question of whether one was strong and clever enough to take advantage.”
― Kyle Mills, Enemy of the State

“The more time he spent in the Middle East, the more certain he became that the region was irreparably broken. How could these people learn to anchor themselves in a modern world never dreamed of by the ancient prophet they believed so deeply in? It was a psychological and moral conflict that left the people here both desiring and shunning the things progress could bring them.”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“Voters are idiots who do what they’re told.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“It would be so easy to turn the Agency against the very American people it was meant to serve. All that would have to happen is for the definition of “enemy of the state” to drift to “enemy of the administration.”
― Kyle Mills, Enemy at the Gates

“Leo Obrecht was a Swiss national who controlled Sparkasse Schaffhausen, a boutique bank based in Zurich.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“Bebe Kincaid, a plump, gray-haired woman who was the most unlikely employee of his company, SEAL Demolition and Salvage.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“An international ruling class was forming. Borders were becoming increasingly meaningless to that privileged group, as was citizenship and the rule of law. Going forward, alliances would no longer be forged between countries so much as individuals and private entities. Those shrewd, strong, and courageous enough to rule would be given that privilege. A privilege that would quickly become an unassailable right. Nationality, patriotism, and religion would go back to what they had been in centuries past—a convenient way to control the masses.”
― Kyle Mills, Enemy at the Gates

“Their mastery of technology was their greatest strength. But their utter reliance on it was, ironically, their greatest weakness.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“I wish I could send everyone in America to live under the dictatorship in Turkmenistan. Or to spend a little time in a New Delhi slum. Maybe they’d gain a little perspective about how good they have it. But I can’t. So instead, they’ll listen to politicians tell them how they’re getting screwed. Or the media telling them about all the things that can kill them. Or some YouTube influencer showing off their fake idyllic life.”
― Kyle Mills, Enemy at the Gates

“The United States was as weak as it had been in human memory. Its people were unconcerned with anything but their own selfish needs and had turned their political system into just another source of cheap entertainment.”
― Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent

“Maybe it was time to hit the reset button on the world. Make people see that there were consequences to their actions. Make them remember what they had and value it enough to protect it.”
― Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent

“The world was changing at an ever-increasing rate and that was a trend that couldn’t be stopped. These people were the ones who had been left behind. The ones who steadfastly refused to leave the dead cities they had been born in. The ones who saw themselves as America’s backbone but who survived on government aid and disability checks. Drug addicts, drunks, and halfwits incapable of performing anything but the simplest of tasks. Ironically, it was those self-destructive traits that made them so useful. Their inflated sense of worth and victimization was easy to manipulate. When asked what exactly it was they wanted, they either didn’t know or weren’t willing to make the sacrifices necessary to get it. What they did know—with burning certainty—was what they hated: the world that had stolen everything from them.”
― Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent

“America’s refusal to deal with its addiction to narcotics and cheap labor was yet another gift from God. Instead of creating a coherent framework to provide those products and services, the very country that demanded them insisted that they be illegal. Predictably, the result was a spectacularly profitable black market that had generated a smuggling infrastructure unparalleled in human history.”
― Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent

“IRONICALLY, the house had once been the property of a U.S. contractor charged with the hopeless task of rebuilding Iraq. America’s politicians had once again made the mistake of judging this part of the world by their own standard. They believed that the natural state of humanity was justice and that it would reign if the pockets of wickedness were eradicated. In truth, the natural state of humanity was chaos. The Americans had just managed to hold it at bay over most of their short history.”
― Kyle Mills, Enemy of the State