David Mitchell Quotes

The strong were always eating the weak.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

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.

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

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

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

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

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

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.