Uday Kotak Quotes

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Big fish eat little fish.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

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.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

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

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

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.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.

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.

Today the world is a big jungle.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.