Philip Meadows Taylor Quotes

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

… from humanity to nationality to bestiality

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.

Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don't worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you're the one who shot him.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, 'What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.'

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

Everything has to do with murder.