Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Anybody can kill anybody.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Some of them … are tripping one another up, while others are twisting each other and groveling together in the mud, wallowing like swine … Others standing upright, … are attacking each other with blows and kicks … one looks as if he were going to spew out his teeth, unlucky man, his mouth full of blood and sand …. Nobody can easily convince me that men who do these things are not out of their minds.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Americans love to read about violence.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

War is not civilized.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

War is a profane thing.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

War is the business of barbarians.