Terri Irwin Quotes

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Man is the cruelest animal.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.

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.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.