Karl Marlantes Quotes

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

I wouldn't say I'm a hostile person.

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

I'm not violent.

I'm not a controversial person. I'm not trying to polarise people.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

Make peace, you fools!

There is nothing in the situation to be disturbed about

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

I believe that there is no path other than the path of peace.

I'm not about the drama.

Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.

I don't have beef with anybody.

My schtick is trolling people. I love getting a rouse out of people and making them angry.

I don't like to get involved in conflict.

Because I love making people mad. It is my favorite pastime.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.