Eric Cantona Quotes

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

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

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Sales bring out the worst in people.

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

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

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

In the nature of man we find three principle causes of quarrel. First, competition; second diffidence; thirdly, glory.

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

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

Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

The pursuit of self-interest, no matter how artfully it be managed, inevitably leads to war in the long run, and all the more inevitably when the management is artful than when it is crude.

I was pretty much a warmonger and a pretty greedy guy. I always wanted to make as much money as I possibly could and felt the downtrodden didn't deserve a break.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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

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

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.