Robert Burton Quotes

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

Hate breeds violence.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth.

We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.

Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

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.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

In violence, we forget who we are.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.