Eugene Ionesco Quotes

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Distrust naturally creates distrust.

It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

Going to rehearsals was too depressing, and missing rehearsals was also depressing, so it was like a vicious circle.

When in doubt, freak 'em out.

If they're acting like a dog, sometimes you're forced to treat people like dogs.

Good God, Dev. Have you completely lost your mind? Don’t tease the psychotic tiger. He’s getting all angry and frothing at the mouth. Someone’s going to think he’s rabid. (Serre) Yeah, but teasing him is like throwing meat at Kyle. It’s highly entertaining. (Dev)

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?

Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true intention. As with everything in life (and life itself), it is a circle.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.

His lordship can eat my fat—

There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out of provoking. They don't always believe the things they say, they just like to watch people go crazy. You know, I knew people like that in elementary school - bullies of one kind or another.

We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.