George Monbiot Quotes

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

War is too strange to process alone.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

Even as a kid I remember seeing 'Minority Report' and just crying my eyes out. It was horrible what was happening to her. That was my mum!

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Killing makes me feel good.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.