Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes

People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

Bloody Ground

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

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

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Blood and death. That moves me.

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.

In violence, we forget who we are.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

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.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

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

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.