Don DeLillo Quotes

It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on. Just because you're not at school doesn't mean kids aren't harassing you on the computer.

Don't get me wrong: I love social websites like Facebook and Twitter, but I think it creates way too many opportunities for young people to bully.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don't like what they are saying!

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Online bullying has to stop.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The nexus between modern science and violence is obvious from the fact that 80 percent of all scientific research is devoted to the war industry and is frankly aimed at large-scale violence.

... merely another weapon.

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.

I think the Internet has given rise to voices that want to attack others.

You troll me, I'm going to troll you.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

I'm the king troll: I troll everybody.

I'm so old... when I was a kid, in order for someone to bully, they had to be bigger and stronger and more intimidating than the people they were bullying. Now with social media and Facebook and Twitter and all those other things, anyone can bully somebody.