Frankie Boyle Quotes

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and maladjustments of the world by hanging them?

I was sitting by Dr. Franklin who perceived that I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

I started working at a soup kitchen in skid row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day, I felt really scared. I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Killing makes me feel good.