Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws Quotes

“New points of view are not, as a rule, discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“you have to be a giant mirror. If someone comes at you with respect, you treat him with respect. If someone comes at you with no regard to your life or well-being, you do the same.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“If you look away by looking down it means you’re submissive. If you slowly look away to the side, it means you’re not looking for trouble, but you’re not afraid of him either. It’s that subtle, but that real.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“Black Muslims are an out-and-out pain in the ass. They can be as bigoted and vicious as any white supremacist. They have taken aspects of Islam and mixed them with racial hatred and U.S. black culture. Like radical feminists, their hatred and anger spur them on. Avoid them if you can; if not, don’t let them get the first move. Also, let them know up front that it’s not a racial thing; it’s because they’re being assholes who’re hiding behind religion.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“whole shitload of very dangerous poisons and powerful hallucinogens are hidden behind a lot of mumbo jumbo.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“If a bull is charging you, meeting him head to head is going to fuck you up. But a matador doesn’t meet the bull’s charge head on. He uses a red cape to distract the bull, and the bull ends up charging the wrong target. Instead of his ass getting gored, the matador lets the cape take the abuse. Finally when the bull passes for the last time, the matador sticks a blade into its heart. Voila! A giant shish kebab! That is how a man stands up to a bull. He doesn’t go head to head with it because he knows he’d lose.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“If a guy can successfully invade your space and get you to back down, he’s won—he’s alpha and you’re beta.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“An effective California prison term I picked up is “gimme five feet!” I usually decorate it with a few colorful adjectives. This tells street people that they’ve fucked up and picked a homeboy instead of a civilian. A homeboy won’t let them get off the first shot; a civilian will. It is critical to remember that these guys know that their asses are on the line. They can’t afford to pick the wrong target.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“A solid rule when you are playing other people is you do not win big and immediately walk away.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“What truly differentiates the heavies from the lightweights is not how tough they are, but how aware they are.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“I’m cool, you’re cool, it’s cool”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“The only thing a bucket of shit is worth is the price of the bucket.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“Every other predator has to rely on cunning, camouflage, trickiness, blindshots, selective targeting, stealth, and, most importantly, its prey’s lack of awareness.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“For example instead of “Thou shall not kill,” try “Thou shall not murder.” There’s a big difference between those two, and you had better learn it. If you believe in the not-kill part, you’re fucked if you meet someone who doesn’t. If you adhere to the not-murder view, however, you can, if necessary, kill someone.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“begin to channel extra soldiers and support in to the branch, while accepting the refugees.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“It is always important to realize that people attack what is unfamiliar to them.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“H.P. Lovecraft, wrote of places of evil and filth, of places where slimy things crawled away from the light to nurse on poison and scum.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“They are no longer human beings. I don’t know any other way to describe them. There is something about them that causes an instinctive reaction of “wrong!” in normal people—”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“It is important to realize that fights and interviews are two-way energy exchanges.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“if necessary, leave. The party may be spoiled, you might not be able to see the end of the movie, etc. so what? It’s better than getting your head knocked in or being around to watch the stomping that is about to happen. somebody is going to get seriously hurt. That means hospitals and police—not fun, folks. oddly enough, when you are really tough, it’s easier to walk away from this sort of thing.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“I once quoted a man as saying, “Violence is the first option, and the last choice, of the competent.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“If you try violence, I will defend.” Perhaps defend isn’t the best term; retaliate is better.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“four bases of violence: fear, frenzy, tantrum, and criminal.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“People are incredibly violent and inflict tremendous pain without even thinking about it. what’s really scary is that, to them, violence has no meaning. They aren’t being cruel; they are being machines.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“(The banquet scene out of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is priceless.)”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“By the way, it’s harder to become less tough once you have it than it is to become tough.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“what’s down deep remains amazingly similar. It’s not whom you hate, but rather that the system is designed for you to hate someone.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“In short, social convention and beliefs are nothing but air.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“The younger religions are usually the most violent, which means less tolerant of those who don’t quack exactly as they do.”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette

“The idea that you have to be able to prove something for it to be real has run amuck in our judicial system to the point that these days you damn near need a videotape to get a conviction”
― Marc MacYoung, Violence, Blunders, and Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques and Street Etiquette