Lynn Nottage Quotes

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

I'm the most hated guy in the division.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

Women tear each other apart.

With shrinking resources, interest groups are pitted against each other.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Let my enemies devour each other.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

Our friends, the enemy.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.