Ian Caldwell Quotes

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

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

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

The strong were always eating the weak.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

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

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

Only the strong survive.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

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

Politics is applied biology.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

We are living in a very tough neighborhood where there is no mercy for the weak.

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