Powers Boothe Quotes

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

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

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

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

The greatest enemy to man is man.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

He who wrongs one threatens many.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

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

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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.

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

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.