41 Quotes by Dave Grossman

Bruno Bettelheim, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, argues that the root of our failure to deal with violence lies in our refusal to face up to it. We deny our fascination with the “dark beauty of violence,” and we condemn aggression and repress it rather than look at it squarely and try to understand and control it.

We didn’t train giving verbal commands, so they weren’t available to us during high stress situations.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring. – Sir Philip Sidney.

The guy pulling the trigger,” wrote Allen Cole and Chris Bunch, “never suffers as much as the person on the receiving end.” It is the existence of the victim’s pain and loss, echoing forever in the soul of the killer, that is at the heart of his pain.

Ted Turner said: “Television violence is the single most significant factor contributing to violence in America.

The sense of personal effectiveness and self confidence created by realistic training is as much a stress reducer as when the muscles go on autopilot.

Unconscious incompetence. This is the lowest level of mastery. Most American male teenagers are at a level of unconscious incompetence when it comes to driving. They are bad drivers. They don’t know it and usually they refuse to admit it. The.

As a counselor I have been taught, and I hold it to be a fundamental truth of human nature, that when someone withholds something traumatic it can cause great damage. When.

If there was a leader present ordering soldiers to fire, then almost everyone would do so.