Voltaire Quotes

More blood! More blood!

... a bloodthirsty partisan who'd just as soon cut your guts out as look at you.

When drinkers became violent, communities accepted the idea that liquor was responsible for their actions; it made no sensate punish the person who committed the crime when the true offender was the alcohol.

People used to call me violent, savage.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

See them coming into our towns with their rum! See them offering it to us with persuasive kindness. Hear them cry, “Drink! Drink!” and when we are drunk, and act like the crazed, behold these good white, these man of a benevolent race, standing by, laughing among themselves, and saying, “Oh, what fools! What great fools the Shawanese are!” But who made them fools? Who are the cause of their madness?

We shall try to destroy you. Won't you have another drink?

No wild beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

… those who have never heard a shot, never hears the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated … but cry out for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.

Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don't mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

People who want to kill other people are the last people I want to party with, because I get mouthy when I drink.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

You feel like a criminal. Knowing you can knock somebody out and know you can put somebody in a temporary coma, that's what you want to go for. It shows how strong, how powerful a person can be to be able to do that.

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body