Irvine Welsh Quotes

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

Violence is not funny.

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?

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

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

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

War dehumanizes everyone.

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

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

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

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

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

I didn't just screw Ho Chi Minh. I cut his pecker off.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

Men do things for other men in war that they would never do in peace.

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

Sometimes you knock someone out, sometimes you just beat 'em.

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

War makes monsters out of men.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

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

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.