David Abrahamsen quotes

“Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.”
-- David Abrahamsen

Source : David Abrahamsen (1973). “The murdering mind”, Harpercollins

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“The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.”
-- David Abrahamsen

Source : San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 18, 1975.

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“In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".”

“I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.”

“Frustration is not a work plan.”

“I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.”

“Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!”

“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

“The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.”

“In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

“It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)”

“The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.”

Source : "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.