Francois Guizot Quotes

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 weak are meat the strong do eat.

The strong were always eating the weak.

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

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.

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

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

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?

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

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

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

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

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.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

Politics is applied biology.

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

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

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

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old and some of the young, and some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail.

In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.