I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

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.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

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

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

War is the business of barbarians.

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

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

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

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

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

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I love being in a courtroom.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.