Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

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.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

The most peaceful and responsible thing this body could do is listen to the complaints of people who have resorted to violent action.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.