Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes

… thrashing a cannibal

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

People are mean to each other.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

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

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

We can not, we just must not, tolerate the sway of violent men among us. We must not permit men who are filled with hatred, and careless of innocent lives, to dominate our streets and fill our homes with fear.

Jews are the brothers of the monkeys and the swine. Verily behind me is a Jew. Then come and kill him Unfortunately we hear too many people saying we must build bridges with them. No. They understand one language. It is the language of the sword, and it is the only language they understand., In order to establish security on this earth …, the word of Allah will be the superior word.