Rodney Stark Quotes

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

I wasn't stealing cars at like, six. But I've always been bad.

Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Shoot first and ask questions later, and don't worry, no matter what happens, I will protect you.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Violent People: Are they the cause of violence or are their genes?

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

When men cease to fight — they cease to be — Men

Didn't I tell you so? What good did your moderation do you? If you don't kill the beast, it will kill you

I was a thug.

In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

I have been hitting people and hurting them since I was 16 years old.

Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.