Benjamin Spock Quotes

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.

Hate breeds violence.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

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

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.