Neil LaBute Quotes
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Wood, Gerald C., editor. Neil LaBute: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
There were a few American Indian Tribes which practiced cannibalism.
This was part of the continual conflict between the Muslims and the Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Greeks ended up doubling their territory.
The Hun were a very fierce, Asian people who under Attila, defeated the troops of the Roman Empire and sacked several Italian cities. They fought very intensely and terrorized their enemies. The Kaiser came under great criticism from other European powers from urging his soldiers to emulate vicious barbarians with no sense of Christian morality.
A Cossack revolt had broken out in 1707 and was put down by the Czar’s forces. He then issued what might be one of the first official orders for genocide. Few Cossacks survived.
See Ferdinand I for the Bulgarian denial {601322}.
The English loved the operettas making fun of themselves. Some of the phrases such as this one ended up being used in serious political debate. See {616511}.
This argument—that Christians were more cruel and uncivilized than heathens in some respects was very persuasive to many serious white Christians who began to see slavery and the slave trade in a new light.
Neil N. LaBute is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best-known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. He wrote and directed the films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Possession (2002) (based on the A.S. Byatt novel), The Shape of Things (2003) (based on his play of the same name), The Wicker Man (2006), Some Velvet Morning (2013), and Dirty Weekend (2015). He directed the films Nurse Betty (2000), Lakeview Terrace (2008), and the American adaptation of Death at a Funeral (2010). LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes. He is also the creator of the TV series Van Helsing. Recently, he executive produced, co-directed and co-wrote the Netflix's The I-Land. He also directed several episodes for shows such as Hell on Wheels and Billions.
