Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won't breed it out of us.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

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.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

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

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.