Thomas Sowell Quotes

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

… thrashing a cannibal

I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

The strong were always eating the weak.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.

The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Force is not a remedy.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.