Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.