Bounty Hunter's blog: "Quotes"

"A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood." -David Berkowitz "Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine and blood." -David Berkowitz "I always had a fetish for murder and death." -David Berkowitz "I am a monster. I am the Son of Sam. I love to hunt." -David Berkowitz "I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them." -David Berkowitz "I have several children who I'm turning into killers. Wait till they grow up." -David Berkowitz "I turn children into killers." -David Berkowitz "I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time." -David Berkowitz "I wasn't going to rob her, or touch her. I was just going to kill her." -David Berkowitz "In this hole lives the wicked king." -David Berkowitz "Kill for my masters." -David Berkowitz "The demons wanted my penis." -David Berkowitz "The people and the news media used to call me 'The Son of Sam,' but God has given me a new name, 'The Son of Hope,' because now my life is about hope." -David Berkowitz

"I haven't blocked out the past. I wouldn't trade the person I am, or what I've done - or the people I've known - for anything. So I do think about it. And at times it's a rather mellow trip to lay back and remember." -Ted Bundy "I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill." -Ted Bundy "I want to master life and death." -Ted Bundy "I'm the most cold-blooded sonofabitch you'll ever meet." -Ted Bundy "Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual." -Ted Bundy "Since this girl in front of him represented not a person, but again the image, or something desirable, the last thing we would expect him to want to do would be to personalize this person. . . . Chattering and flattering and entertaining, as if seen through a motion picture screen." -Ted Bundy "Sometimes I feel like a vampire." -Ted Bundy "The fantasy that accompanies and generates the anticipation that precedes the crime is always more stimulating than the immediate aftermath of the crime itself." -Ted Bundy "They wouldn't be stereotypes necessarily. But they would be reasonable facsimiles to women as a class. A class not of women, per se, but a class that has almost been created through the mythology of women and how they are used as objects." -Ted Bundy "We all go a little mad sometimes." -Ted Bundy "We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. and there will be more of your children dead tomorrow. " -Ted Bundy "When you work hard to do something right, you don't want to forget it." -Ted Bundy "You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!" -Ted Bundy

Did I kill anyone? Charles Manson From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. Charles Manson Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard. Charles Manson How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that? Charles Manson I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. Charles Manson I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. Charles Manson I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in. Charles Manson I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed. Charles Manson I have X'd myself from your world. Charles Manson I loved my mother, she's a good girl. Charles Manson I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted. Charles Manson I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal. Charles Manson I punched my mother out once. Charles Manson I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along. Charles Manson I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own. Charles Manson I'm not of this generation. Charles Manson I'm not very wise to many things. Charles Manson I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me. Charles Manson If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy. Charles Manson Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something. Charles Manson Living is what scares me. Dying is easy. Charles Manson My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you. Charles Manson My life is not important here. Charles Manson No sense makes sense. Charles Manson Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that. Charles Manson Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? Charles Manson So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening. Charles Manson The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies. Charles Manson These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. Charles Manson We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice. Charles Manson You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words. Charles Manson You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. Charles Manson

Some quotes from the Hagakure: About the Hagakure Yamamoto Tsunetomo was a samurai in the early 1700s. Forbidden by law from committing tsuifuku (suicide of a retainer after his master's death), he retired to a monestary. Though he never fought in any battles, he nonetheless felt that the samurai of his time had become soft. A younger samurai that visited Yamamoto over the years wrote down his words in the Hagakure. It has been translated many times, including a translation by the famous Japanese author Mishima Yukio. * Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. * There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. * These are the teachings of Yamamoto Jin'emon: o Singlemindedness is all-powerful. o Tether even a roasted chicken. o Continue to spur a running horse. o A man who will criticize you openly carries no connivance. o A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time. o Money is a thing that will be there when asked for. A good man is not so easily found. o Walk with a real man one hundred yards and he'll tell you at least seven lies. * It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is an even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

Thucydides Greek Historian of Athens, and General in the Peloponnesian War One of the greatest of the ancient historians Lived: c. 460-400 B.C. We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school." - Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (431-404 B.C.) "It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter." - Thucydides, Greek historian. "History of the Peloponnesian War" "The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." -Thucydides "Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war." - Thucydides "The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers." - Thucydides, "History of The Peloponnesian War", book 2, 404 BC

William Shakespeare English dramatist and poet Lived: 1564-1616 "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once." - William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar") "Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War." - William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar") "In peace nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, disguise fair nature with hard favored rage. . ." - William Shakespeare ("King Henry V") "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother; be ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed, Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhood's cheap whiles any speaks, That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." - William Shakespeare ("King Henry V") "From now until the end of the world, we and it shall be remembered. We few, we Band of Brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." - William Shakespeare ("King Henry V")

Flavius Vegetius Renatus Roman writer and military strategist Author of Epitoma rei militari(s) (a summary of military matters) Lived: around 390 "Romans not only easily conquered those who fought by cutting, but mocked them too. For the cut, even delivered with force, frequently does not kill, when the vital parts are protected by equipment and bone. On the contrary, a point brought to bear is fatal at two inches; for it is necessary that whatever vital parts it penetrates, it is immersed. Next, when a cut is delivered, the right arm and flank are exposed. However, the point is delivered with the cover of the body and wounds the enemy before he sees it. ... However, they are given that double-weight shield frame and foil, so that when the recruit takes up real, lighter weapons, as if freed from the heavier weight, he will fight in greater safety and faster. But when field training was ended through negligence and laxity, the equipment (which the soldiers seldom put on) began to be seen as heavy." - Flavius Vegetius Renatus (in Epitoma Rei Militari, ca. 390) "Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war!") - Flavius Vegetius Renatus "Valor is superior to number" -Flavius Vegetius Renatus "The courage of the soldier is heightened by the knowledge of his profession" -Flavius Vegetius Renatus "Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline" -Flavius Vegetius Renatus Another Version: "Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter." -Flavius Vegetius Renatus "To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter." -Flavius Vegetius Renatus "When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands" -Flavius Vegetius Renatus "Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery....Terrain is often of more value than bravery....Bravery is of more value than numbers." -Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Douglas MacArthur American general Supreme Allied Commander of South-West Pacific (1945) Lived: 1880–1964 "It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice." - General Douglas Macarthur "In war there is no substitute for victory." - Gen Douglas MacArthur "I Shall Return" - Gen Douglas MacArthur "The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return." "Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed" - Macarthur, August 1950 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. - Gen Douglas MacArthur "In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash." - General Douglas MacArthur In war there is no substitute for victory. - General Douglas MacArthur Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. - General Douglas MacArthur The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. - General Douglas MacArthur "I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!" - General Douglas MacArthur By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.'' - General Douglas MacArthur No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation - General Douglas MacArthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. - General Douglas MacArthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. - General Douglas MacArthur You are remembered for the rules you break. - General Douglas MacArthur There's no security on this earth, only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. - General Douglas MacArthur Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - General Douglas MacArthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. - General Douglas MacArthur It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. - General Douglas MacArthur "One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda." -General Douglas MacArthur "In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military." -General Douglas MacArthur On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seed that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. -General Douglas MacArthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. -Douglas MacArthur

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th President of the United States (1961–63) Lived: 1917-1963 "A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living." -John F. Kennedy (JFK) "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." -John F. Kennedy (JFK) "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." -John F. Kennedy (JFK) "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." -John F. Kennedy (JFK) "I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy"" -John F. Kennedy (JFK) "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." -John F. Kennedy (JFK), Speech, Frankfurt, 25 June 1963. “Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” -John F. Kennedy (JFK) In an address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 25, 1961

Adolf Hitler Founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator Lived: 1889–1945 "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live." - Adolf Hitler "In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism." - Adolf Hitler "The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!" - Adolf Hitler "For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards." - Adolf Hitler "There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man." - Adolf Hitler "Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth...." - Adolf Hitler "The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others." - Adolf Hitler "It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms." - Adolf Hitler "How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started -- that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed." - Adolf Hitler (from Hitler Speaks) "Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless" - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf" "A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow." - Adolf Hitler "Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices" - Adolf Hitler "Strength lies not in defense but in attack." - Adolf Hitler "Words build bridges into unexplored regions" - Adolf Hitler "Great liars are also great magicians" - Adolf Hitler "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler "People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways ... there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons ... why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?" - Adolf Hitler "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." - Adolf Hitler "Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us" - Adolf Hitler "Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions" - Adolf Hitler "Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself." - Adolf Hitler "Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security." - Adolf Hitler (1933) "We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans" - Adolf Hitler "National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe... The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation... Germany needs peace and desires peace!" - Adolf Hitler (May 21, 1935) "England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally." - Adolf Hitler (1939) "The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew" - Adolf Hitler "The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness." - Adolf Hitler (1941) "To be a leader means to be able to move masses" - Adolf Hitler "Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality" - Adolf Hitler "We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames." - Adolf Hitler "Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won" - Adolf Hitler "There could be no issue between the Church and the State. The Church, as such, has nothing to do with political affairs. On the other hand, the State has nothing to do with the faith or inner organization of the Church" - Adolf Hitler It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms. - Adolf Hitler "The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes" - Adolf Hitler "It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge" - Adolf Hitler "Man has become great through struggle" - Adolf Hitler "The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom" - Adolf Hitler Always before God and the world, the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills" - Adolf Hitler "The majority can never replace the man" - Adolf Hitler "What we have to fight for is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the creator" - Adolf Hitler "I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other" - Adolf Hitler "Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive" - Adolf Hitler "The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward" - Adolf Hitler "Only force rules. Force is the first law" - Adolf Hitler "The only people I have been able to use are those who fought" - Adolf Hitler "The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." - Adolph Hitler "The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category." - Adolph Hitler "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolph Hitler Quotes "When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." - Adolph Hitler Quotes "Who says I am not under the special protection of God?" - Adolph Hitler Quotes