Richard Henry Tawney Quotes

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Big fish eat little fish.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.