Quotes About Predation

Since predation must be supported out of the surplus of production, it is necessarily true that the class constituting the State—the full-time bureaucracy (and nobility)—must be a rather small minority in the land, although it may, of course, purchase allies among important groups in the population. Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.8, 9 Of

Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation.

the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124

In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.

I don't eat animals." "What's the problem with eating animals? Animals don't have problems eating other animals. You ever have a cat? Those suckers are the sweetest, most adorable little bloodthirsty killers in the world.

The average entry age of American minors into the sex trade is 12-14 years old.

She needs feeding up. Leo never could take care of the gifts he was given.' 'He wasn't given Anna,' Charles said. 'He hunted her down.' Tag's face stilled. 'He Changed an Omega by force?

men hunt by pretending to be the brothers of the prey they seek, and women hunt by impersonating the mothers of their prey.

Even the hated wolf kills only for food and only for immediate need. Maybe it is man who will eventually perish as he destroys the land and all that it offers, taking the animals down with him.

mammals and birds can live longer, if they don't get eaten

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.