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Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18) QUOTES

Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18) QUOTES

1 " the science of shooting people in the torso and not killing them was a fairly inexact one. In fact, he might have just invented it. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

2 " America is as weak as it has been in a hundred and fifty years. Its people are consumed with hatred for each other. They see themselves as having been cheated by the rest of the world. Stolen from. Taken advantage of. The twenty-four-hour news cycle continues to reinforce these attitudes, as do the Russians’ Internet propaganda efforts. And the upcoming presidential election is amplifying those divisions to the point that the country is being torn apart.” “It’s "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

3 " America is as weak as it has been in a hundred and fifty years. Its people are consumed with hatred for each other. They see themselves as having been cheated by the rest of the world. Stolen from. Taken advantage of. The twenty-four-hour news cycle continues to reinforce these attitudes, as do the Russians’ Internet propaganda efforts. And the upcoming presidential election is amplifying those divisions to the point that the country is being torn apart. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

4 " The Americans are people of extremes, prone to fits of rage and self-destructiveness, but also in possession of an inner strength that no one in history has been able to overcome. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

5 " America’s politicians were concerned with nothing but the perpetuation of their own power through the next election cycle. The "

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6 " There are no disasters. Just opportunities we haven’t found yet. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

7 " The human species' ability to believe whatever it wanted was truly incredible. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

8 " There was no denying that the United States and its citizens had been strong in the early twentieth century—accustomed to death and hardship, led by competent politicians, and informed by an honest press. So much had changed in the last century. The American people were now inexplicably suspicious of modern medicine and susceptible to nonsensical conspiracy theories. They were selfish and self-absorbed, willing to prioritize their own trivial desires over the lives of their countrymen. Their medical system, designed less to heal people than to generate profits, would quickly collapse as it was flooded by desperate patients and abandoned by personnel fearful of being infected. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

9 " 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. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

10 " 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. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

11 " 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? "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

12 " The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

13 " 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. Its defenses were still built around standing armies that had become little more than a way for the military-industrial complex to enrich itself. America’s ability to adapt and reinvent itself had been stripped away by politicians who had trained their constituents to view change with fear and anger. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

14 " 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. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

15 " movement. "

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16 " I’m afraid optics are all that’s left inside the Beltway, "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

17 " For all its size and sophistication, even the American military was capable of little more than a lengthy string of elaborate failures. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

18 " 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. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

19 " America’s ability to adapt and reinvent itself had been stripped away by politicians who had trained their constituents to view change with fear and anger. "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)

20 " was human nature to hate the traitor more intensely than the enemy, "

― , Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp, #18)