Walter Kirn Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

Force is not a remedy.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

We should be artistic in causing harm to them [dissidents.]

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

I was highly influenced by violence.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.