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

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

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

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

“(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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Over the years, I’ve come to believe that we need enemies. They’re how we define ourselves and fighting them gives us purpose. In the absence of a viable external threat, we begin turning on ourselves. I don’t want Russia as an ally. I just want to keep the cold war between us from becoming hot.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“he was actually a key person in Halabi’s orbit. His educational background is in physics but he seems to be knowledgeable in pretty much anything relating to technology.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“And the American people…” His voice faded for a moment. “They faint if someone uses insensitive language in their presence and half of them couldn’t run up a set of stairs if you put a gun to their heads. What’ll happen if the real shit hits the fan?”
― Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent

“Politicians were creatures controlled by passion and it was most effective to quietly absorb that energy without actually giving ground.”
― Kyle Mills, The Survivor

“I used to believe in God. And even the royalty. Now I see the first as delusional and the second as naïve. All that pomp and circumstance is just a weapon the strong use against the weak. And a strangely effective one. Have you ever thought about how these men gain power? We give it willingly to precisely the ones who shouldn’t have it. There’s something that attracts us to their insatiable hunger. Their ruthless, single-minded drive. We toil and die for them expecting nothing in return. Dreaming that one day they’ll bless us with a word or a casual wave of the hand. Knowing that eventually we’ll be discarded without a thought.”
― 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

“He watched a woman struggle from the low-slung sports car with the help of the doorman and then teeter toward the entrance tugging at a miniskirt that seemed to be half-missing.”
― Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent

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

“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

“Many men throughout history had decided that their vision was important enough to justify any action. All had been absolutely certain that they were right. And all had turned out to be incredibly dangerous.”
― Kyle Mills, The Utopia Experiment

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

“Human nature can’t be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it’s the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War