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Quotes About Confrontation

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
~ Malcolm X
when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me
~ Chuck Norris
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
~ Kurt Cobain
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
~ Hal Holbrook
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
~ George S. Patton
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
~ Savielly Tartakower
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
~ Dan Brown
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
~ Malcolm X
It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way." He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it." Boom. "Correction, they're not headed our way anymore." Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat.
~ Neal Stephenson
the question hung there like an invisible wall of flatulence
~ Neal Stephenson
It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats, Vic says, looking through his magic site. Five guys on it. Headed our way. He fires another round. Correction. Four guys on it. Boom. Correction, they're not headed our way anymore. Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. Correction. No boat.
~ Neal Stephenson
Well, land sakes! Hiro says. Lookee here! He whips his blade sideways, cutting off both of the businessman's forearms, causing the sword to clatter onto the floor. Better fire up the ol' barbeque, Jemima! Hiro continues, whipping the sword around sideways, cutting the businessman's body in half just above the navel. Then he leans down so he's looking right into the businessman's face. Didn't anyone tell you, he says, losing the dialect, that I was a hacker? Then he hacks the guy's head off.
~ Neal Stephenson
Carl Hollywood was appalled to realize that the only thing now standing between them and their three-decade march to the banks of the Huang Pu was Carl Hollywood, his .44, and a handful of lightly armed civilians.
~ Neal Stephenson
We don't have to satisfy him," Stan said. "We just have to be able to look him in the eye when we're telling him to fuck off.
~ Neal Stephenson
I am Death," she said. "Now, which one of us is going to open the gate?
~ Neal Stephenson
It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way." He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it." Boom. "Correction, they're not headed our way anymore." Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat.
~ Neal Stephenson
his first instinct with things that troubled him was to wall them off, and then wait for them to grow bad enough to threaten the structural integrity of the wall, and then, finally, to get out a sledgehammer.
~ Neal Stephenson
Das Messer sitzt mir an der Kehle. The knife is at my throat; I am face-to-face with doom.
~ Neal Stephenson
if any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn't work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because you'll probably do a neater job of it than the Fascists will.
~ Neal Stephenson
But you couldn't argue with an axe in the attic.
~ Neal Stephenson
Denial is the mechanism here. And nowhere is denial more insidious than in self-denial.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
So you've placed yourself there to begin with in order to avoid going there. Hmmmmm. Interesting strategy.
~ Neale Donald Walsch