Federica Montseny Quotes

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.

By his intellect, [man] is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

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

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

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

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

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

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

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

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

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

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

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