Jacob Bronowski Quotes

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Hate breeds violence.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

I like to throw bombs.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

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