Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Without game, men prey on each other.

Societies organized for the interplay of individual self-interest can collapse into manic tribalism, if not nihilistic violence.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.