Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

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

Without game, men prey on each other.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend

The most frequent reason why men desire to hurt each other, ariseth hence, that many men at the same time have an Appetite to the same thing; which yet very often they can neither enjoy in common, nor yet divide it.

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I've got to fight them away, and that's what we do every time fight night happens.

It's hard if people don't want to fight me.

I want to fight as much as I can.

Anytime I can take a fight, I feel good doing it.

The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

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

I'm always challenged by someone.

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

Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.