John Wear

“Bilateral symmetry can have grave consequences for a police officer in a tense situation where he is holding a pistol on a suspect.”
― Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace

“90 percent reduction in violence among the boys who had television and video games removed,”
― Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. —Thucydides”
― Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace

“Despite our wonders and greatness, we are a society that has experienced so much social regression, so much decadence, in so short a period of time, that in many parts of America we have become the kind of place to which civilized countries used to send missionaries. - quoting William Bennett”
― Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace