Code of Conduct: A Thriller Quotes.

1. "You ever work with a UN stabilization force? Ash asked. Harvath shook his head. Then trust me. As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. The cholera outbreak the old blue helmets caused in Haiti? Over ten thousand dead, and it has spread to the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The rapes and sex crimes they have committed in Mali and everywhere else? The stories of their depravity and brutality are legion."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

2. "Malthus believed that a Utopian society could never be achieved as long as the world’s population was allowed to continue to grow unchecked. The only way to protect the earth and improve the existence of mankind was to have less of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

3. "Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government’s number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

4. "My point is that bureaucrats—like everyone else—have a mind-set. The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In fact, they begin to believe that certain groups of citizens are the root of the nation’s problems. They see them as a threat. If those citizens can be brought to heel, the bureaucracy sees itself as doing the citizenry at large a greater good, actually making their lives better."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

5. "1. Decrease current human population below five hundred million and keep it in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity. 3. Unite humanity with a living new language. 4. Redistribute global wealth under the more acceptable term global public goods. 5. Rebalance personal rights with social duties. 6. Replace passion, faith, and tradition with reason. 7. Make clever use of new technologies to go around national governments and establish direct ties with citizens. 8. Rebrand global governance as equitable, efficient, and the logical next step in human evolution. 9. Discredit, delegitimize, and dismantle the idea of the nation state/national sovereignty. 10. Prepare a mechanism to neutralize any challenges to United Nations’ authority."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

6. "The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

7. "The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing—how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

8. "The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn’t win by thinking inside the box and following someone else’s rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

9. "The rain forests of the Congo Basin contained so much water that they caused their own weather system, and were known as the Lungs of Africa."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller

10. "As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN."
- Brad Thor, Code of Conduct: A Thriller