Henry Rollins Quotes

We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it's the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it's the right kind of violence, we love it.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Without game, men prey on each other.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings and actions that make for peace and freedom. Conversely almost nobody wants war or tyranny; but a great many people find an intense pleasure in the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for war and tyranny.

It is a war to the death between good and evil. We must fight fire with fire.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.