Warren Ellis Quotes

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

People are ruthless, man.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.

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

History is merciless.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Slaves Rose on us--was obliged fire on them and Destroyed Eight and Several more wounded badly Captives became so Dispirited after the failed insurrection that Some Drowned themselves, Some Starved and others Sickened & Dyed.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.