Vivian Stanshall Quotes

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

The world is too violent right now.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

War is the business of barbarians.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The first encounter was when the Vikings came across 10 Indians taking naps under their overturned canoes - and the Vikings killed them. That did not set up a very good mutual relationship.

Hate breeds violence.