Haniel Long Quotes

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

We seek a logical understanding of mass violence, but war and civil strife rarely explode because of rational grievances. Complaints about oppression, poverty or injustice may serve as superficial catalysts, but few wars can be traced to objective decision-making by the dispassionate leaders of cool-headed populations. War is an act of passion, not of policy.

When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!

But when I started playing in bands, everyone would just have a couple beers at rehearsal, at the shows, or whatever, and alcohol is a great equalizer. It's a great way to make friends and interact with people.

I used to fight every week. Me and my friends used to fight each other, bare knuckle, but then we would be friends that same day. That was our entertainment, though.

I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.

The most important opinions to me are those that belong to the guys in the changing room.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.