Chief Seattle Quotes

When I was young, you get into the point where you want to throw everything hard. And it looks good, it feels good... You get to the point, though, where it's not realistic.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

I know I get abusive, very abusive, when I'm angry.

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.