Roddy McDowall Quotes

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

Man is no man, but a wolf

Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking for any interlopers. "Or better yet, one of the crazies who might've strayed over here. Too bad these things have to be charged or we could get rid of this virus problem in a jiffy. Sweep these old neighborhoods nice and clean." Mark joined him on the ground below the Berg, wary that someone might be watching from the ruined homes surrounding them or from the burnt woods beyond those. "Your value of human life brings tears to my eyes," he muttered.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

Anybody can kill anybody.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

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

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.