Robert Crumb Quotes

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

It's nice to hit and not be hit back.

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

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

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

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

Violence is not funny.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

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 men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

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.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

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

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

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