Henry Rollins Quotes

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

I had to steal to survive.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's always good and bad in the land, and goodbeasts have to protect their friends an' families from evil ones who want nothing but to conquer an' destroy.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Hunger allows no choice.

Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.