George Carlin Quotes

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

You don't want 8,000 fans booing you so you want them on your side.

I enjoy seeing how many boos I can get.

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.