Drew Markham Quotes

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Politics is applied biology.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

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

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

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

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.

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

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Without game, men prey on each other.

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

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

The strongest absorbs the weakest, and he has a right to do so.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.

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.

Let the madmen duke it out and then jump the one or two of them that are left.

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

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

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

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.