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

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

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

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

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.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

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.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for 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.

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

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

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.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

The world is too violent right now.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

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.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

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

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

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

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.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

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

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

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