Survivalism Quotes

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.

It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

The danger today resides in the Disaster Lobby—those crepe-hangers who, for personal gain or out of sheer ignorance, are undermining the American system and threatening the lives and fortunes of the American people. Some people have let the gloom-mongers scare them beyond rational response with talk about atomic annihilation. ... Since World War II over one billion human beings who worried about A- bombs and H-bombs died of other causes. They worried for nothing

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.

I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.

How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.