David Mitchell Quotes

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

The greatest enemy to man is man.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.