Joseph David-Jones Quotes

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.