John Adams Quotes

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

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

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.

Big fish eat little fish.

Whenever, and from whatever causes, it might happen; and happen it would, that any one of these nations or confederacies should rise on the scale of political importance much above the degree of their neighbors, that moment would those neighbors behold her with envy and fear.

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

Politics is a body contact sport.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

If it were up to me, I'd be fighting chumps.

Fire beats roses again.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

It's a god-eat-god world.

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

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

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.