Larry McMurtry Quotes

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Hate breeds violence.

… thrashing a cannibal

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Hate them and strike them.

There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

We can not, we just must not, tolerate the sway of violent men among us. We must not permit men who are filled with hatred, and careless of innocent lives, to dominate our streets and fill our homes with fear.