Sons of Cain Quotes

“Suddenly a million males, most of whom had been raised under the tenets of Western Judeo-Christian values but had rarely ventured beyond their hometowns, were catapulted thousands of miles overseas among strangers into a savagely primitive world of warfare stripped of the rules and inhibitions of civilization. It was a mini Stone Age war but with machine guns and flamethrowers, in which our soldiers were called upon to behave like our primitive ancestors in a reptilian state of killing for survival.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“Primitive humans developed a neurosis, an irrational or imaginary fear, one not caused by an actual threat: necrophobia—a fear of the dead.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“For the media covering serial murder it is not the number of victims that counts anymore. But their celebrity status or credit rating. The trade off these days is one upscale SUV in the driveway for every 10 dead hookers in a dumpster.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“Werewolves had been so rationalized and medicalized by the year 1000 that they became subject to a medieval type of “heroin chic” romanticism in literature, in which they were frequently portrayed as attractive, lonely, suffering, victimized, self-sacrificing, chivalrous heroes in fictional and mythological tales emerging during the Grail romance era. The “chivalrous werewolf” narratives often feature a noble knight or prince who transforms into a werewolf to protect the subject of his romantic love, but while he is a werewolf she betrays him by stealing his transformative device—either a potion, a ring, a belt or his clothes—trapping him forever in his lovelorn werewolf state.25”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“Add to that the age-old principle of Ockham’s razor in problem-solving: “If there are a number of possible solutions, the simplest one, based on the fewest assumptions, is most likely to be correct.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“for example, the post-9/11 notion that we now need to sacrifice some of our deeply held beliefs in individual liberty and privacy in the name of collective security against terrorism. It is not reaching too far to compare our current fear of terrorists with our past fear of witches. For example, the chance of an American being killed by a terrorist is an extraordinarily unlikely 1 in 20 million, compared to being killed in a car accident (1 in 19 thousand), drowning in their own bathtub (1 in 800 thousand), or being struck by lightning (1 in 1.5 million), yet society is in an acute state of anxiety over the terrorist “threat.”26 It’s not about logic but perception.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“The definitive characteristic of the sexosophy of Christendom is the doctrine of the split between saintly love and sinful lust. This doctrine is all-pervasive. It penetrates all the institutions of contemporary Christendom . . . The cleft between saintly love and sinful lust is omnipresent in the sexuoerotic heritage of our culture. Love is undefiled and saintly. Lust is defiling and sinful. Love exists above the belt, lust below. Love is lyrical. Lust is lewd. Love is heralded in public. Lust is hidden in private. Love displayed is championed, but championships for lust are condemned. Love is candid, and speaks its name. Lust is clandestine and euphemizes its name. In some degree or other, the cleavage between love and lust gets programed into the design of the lovemaps of all developing boys and girls.12”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“Northern Kentucky University's criminal sociologist J. Robert Lilly, looked closely at the statistics of wartime rapes committed by American GI's serving in Britain, France and Germany. To everyone's horror, Lilly reported that American liberators raped 14,000 to 17,000 women between 1942 and 1945 in those 3 European countries alone.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“The 60s just felt more murderous than the 50s. It seemed like a man made plague of violence in the middle of an apocalyptic siege, with serial killers being catapulted like diseased carcasses over the protective walls of civilization harboring the tattered remains of the illusory innocent America we had believed in the decade before.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“It was only in the mid-1970s, after Ted Bundy started abducting and killing middle-class white college girls at schools, shopping malls, ski chalets, national parks and public beaches, that the media suddenly began paying close attention.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“four Fs” of evolutionary survival: Fleeing, Fighting, Feeding and Fucking. If any one of these instincts malfunctions in a species, the species will eventually become extinct.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“It is estimated that one in every 83 Americans4 and one in 166 Britons5 is a diagnosable psychopath.”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

“I was left with a sensation of having encountered a monster, in the ancient sense of the original Latin word, “monstrum”: “an omen or warning of the will of the gods.”4”
― Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present