Mayhem Quotes

• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Aggravation, Murder

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• Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, "Hey, dummy," or "Hey, Mayhem."

  Dean Winters

  New York, Feet, Two

  "Dean Winters Is Pretty Stylish for an Insurance Salesman". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2011.

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• The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

  Debbie Gibson

  Drama, People, Would Be

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• I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

  Rob Zombie

  Fun, School, Dawn

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• They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Gun, Japan

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• Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Soul, Erotic, Devastation

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• Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Years, Mind, Insane

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

  Peg Bracken

  Humor, People, Arson

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.

  Janet Evanovich

  Hate, Car, Wrecks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.626, Bantam

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• Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Queens, Bees, Drones

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The things you own end up owning you.

  Brad Pitt

  Fighting, Simple Life, Clubs

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• Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Technology, Circles

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• What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Debauchery, Madness

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.308, Macmillan

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

  Todd Phillips

  Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sleep, Eye, Dragons

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

  Ronald Blythe

  Drama, Battle, Facts

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• I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Rights, Law

  "Washington Navy Yard Massacre — The Aftermath" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

  Louie Giglio

  War, Men, Garden

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• Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

  Mike Royko

  Pain, Gun, Law

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• The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Virtue, Crime

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• For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, School, Kids

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• There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Punishment, Evil

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 11, 2014

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• We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Healing

  "Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the "Old Way of Thinking" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. November 1, 2001.

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