Brigitte Bardot Quotes

Man is the cruelest animal.

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.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

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

I have no patience whatsoever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

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

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

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.

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.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

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.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

War is the business of barbarians.

People are ruthless, man.