Jane Goodall Quotes

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

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.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

Humans are one another’s enemies

Hate breeds violence.

Hate, not hat, is in the ring.

The English will never cut each other's throats to the extent that we desire.

Weakness and ambivalence lead to war

Violent and quarrelsome men often come to a bloody end.

I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

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

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.