William James Quotes

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

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

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

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

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.

Without game, men prey on each other.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.