Angela Carter Quotes

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

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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.

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

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

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.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

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

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Big fish eat little fish.

The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

It is good to have competition because that helps you survive in the long run.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

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.