Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.