Red Sky Mourning Quotes

“I never pay attention to the odds,” Reece said.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“Unrestricted Warfare,” Jin said. “They even subtitled it China’s Master Plan to Destroy America, though it was certainly not that. The U.S. dominates in only one sphere: direct state-on-state confrontation and conflict. They neglect all other types of warfare. They are focused on battlefield dominance to the detriment of all else.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“If she comes back to us, the next phase in her development would be the incorporation of genetic engineering, advanced robotics, biotechnologies, and emerging nanotechnologies.” “You’re saying she’s a weapon of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?” “In essence, yes.” “And when you say genetics, robotics, and bio- and nanotechnologies, you mean the next step is turning her into a person?” “They call it humanoid robotics and it’s coming whether we like it or not.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“The sequence goes giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, and yotta,” Danreb explained. “Yoda?” “Yotta. Each one represents a thousandfold increase over the level before.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“They should feel even more guilty that they are funding a machine that is sacrificing their progeny’s future for their own moral vanity. How people smart enough to build multibillion-dollar tech companies are stupid enough not to see they are funding their own destruction is beyond me.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“4.2 million people hold SECRET security clearances; 1.3 million of them hold TOP SECRET clearances. In the Washington, D.C., area alone, more than 17 million square feet of space is dedicated to storing classified information.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“To be truthful, I think we are in a steep decline, with the rights I care about being curtailed at an astonishing rate by the very people we elect to represent us in office. Basically, I think the majority of them are a cancer destroying a once-great nation and spitting on the graves of all those who sacrificed everything to give them the ability to destroy it from within.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“The death of some men is useful to other men,” Jonathan said. “C. S. Lewis. The Abolition of Man.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“David Kilcullen spells it out in The Dragons and the Snakes. He is one of the few who not only study China as an adversary but understands us as well.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“Master Sun said it two thousand years ago. Fei duicheng—asymmetric means,” Jin said. “Yes, where your enemy is strong—avoid him. Where he is weak—strike.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“I say all that because had you left me alone, I wouldn’t even be here. But you didn’t. You hurt someone I care about so now I’m invested. You know what comes next as part of this little experiment.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“I’ve known you since your teens. You love her love of you. That’s not the same thing.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“Use the time you have, James. When you put down the gun, walk away. Don’t live in the past. Love your wife. Raise your kids. And don’t look back. Treasure each moment, because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“I think we are in a steep decline, with the rights I care about being curtailed at an astonishing rate by the very people we elect to represent us in office. Basically, I think the majority of them are a cancer destroying a once-great nation and spitting on the graves of all those who sacrificed everything to give them the ability to destroy it from within.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“since it was really a collection of rooms in a five-thousand-square-foot space staffed 24/7, 365 days a year by Duty Officers from each branch of the military, intelligence community, and federal law enforcement. It was created as the crisis management hub for circumstances that required the highest levels of attention, where the executive branch could monitor world events and sensitive military and intelligence operations in real time.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“the time”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“Their lives had been violently extinguished, their final moments filled with horror. Reece blamed himself. But instead of waiting for what he thought was a terminal brain tumor to reunite them in the afterlife, he had done what he did best. Reece had visited upon his enemies a violence and terror unlike anything they could have ever imagined. And Katie had helped him. She had become part of the story.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning