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The Queen
The chairperson of the United Nation’s Postwar Commission Report. She believes that the report should be objective and fact-based rather than based on “the human factor.” When the narrator protests, she tells him to write a book using the interviews and to write it in the way that he would like.
Chairperson Quotes in World War Z
The World War Z quotes below are all either spoken by Chairperson or refer to Chairperson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The official report was a collection of cold, hard data, an objective “after-action report” that would allow future generations to study the events of that apocalyptic decade without being influenced by “the human factor.” But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves? By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as “the living dead”?
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Chairperson Quotes in World War Z
The World War Z quotes below are all either spoken by Chairperson or refer to Chairperson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Introduction
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The official report was a collection of cold, hard data, an objective “after-action report” that would allow future generations to study the events of that apocalyptic decade without being influenced by “the human factor.” But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves? By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as “the living dead”?
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