Stanley Crouch Quotes

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

I think violence can never be justified.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

I don't like when I watch a fight in a movie that's perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn't be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

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.

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.