Huey Newton Quotes

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

War is not civilized.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War is the business of barbarians.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

War is at its best barbarism.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Some of them … are tripping one another up, while others are twisting each other and groveling together in the mud, wallowing like swine … Others standing upright, … are attacking each other with blows and kicks … one looks as if he were going to spew out his teeth, unlucky man, his mouth full of blood and sand …. Nobody can easily convince me that men who do these things are not out of their minds.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries. All empires have been cemented in blood; and, in those early periods, when the race of mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations, the first effect of the combination, and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed, and best calculated, was their mutual destruction.

I am an apostle of violence

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

There are worse things than war.