Clement Freud Quotes

I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.

The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European but an Asiatic and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese and, from what I’ve seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other amiable characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of a bitch, a barbarian, and a chronic drunk.

They are a scurvy race and simply savages. We could beat hell out of them.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

… those who have never heard a shot, never hears the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated … but cry out for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it.

...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

Beat him, eat him and get out.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.