Takeshi Kitano Quotes

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved against the Jews, we now wish to do against all other people who are in our way, to smash, crush - yes, even exterminate.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I'd never hurt another person.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.