Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

War settles nothing.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!