Vladimir Putin Quotes

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

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

I'm afraid this man will kill me some day.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

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

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

... a bloodthirsty partisan who'd just as soon cut your guts out as look at you.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height!

Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won't breed it out of us.

We kill the chickens to scare the monkeys.

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

No one wants to be beaten, even myself.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

I'm knocking fools out. I'm beating guys because that's what I was born to do.

For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don't get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don't get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.

The Hayemaker is a dangerous fellow who, when the bell rings, is on a seek and destroy mission, by any means necessary. No playing around. No comedy. It's just straight-up business.

There are individuals out there who use the body protection as a form of staying power to go on as long as possible. That's the worst way anybody can be thinking, that you should cover yourself in a suit of armour, to make yourself brave, or to enable you to hook - when you never hooked in your life - just because you've got a helmet on.

Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.