Rod Lurie Quotes

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

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.

Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won't breed it out of us.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

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.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

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

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Violent People: Are they the cause of violence or are their genes?

Fighting has been a part of my life for my entire existence.

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.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

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.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

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

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

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

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.