Bruno Dumont Quotes

Without game, men prey on each other.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, and pride; the desire for food, land, materials, fuels, mastery. The state has our instincts without our restraints.

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.

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

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.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

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

The war shall give us our land. The concept of "ours" and "not ours" are peace concepts only, they lose their meaning during war.

Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.

She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.