Dan Savage Quotes

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Violence is not funny.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty…

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.

We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land as a consequence.

Without delay and without exception, you will put to the sword every Spaniard in dungeon or hospital …

Exterminate all brutes.

When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you.

My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

People used to call me violent, savage.

Boxing is like the Wild West. There are no rules. It's horrible.

ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

People are brutal. Just to each other.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!