“If we claim to be a higher order than animals, how come that we're the only species that engages in killing for sport, hurting for pleasure, discrimination, greed, and war?”

Joan Marques

Joan Marques - “If we claim to be a higher order than...” 1

Similar quotes

“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?”

Robert Buettner
Read more

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”

James Anthony Froude
Read more

“Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword.”

Scott Lynch
Read more

“Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”

Simon Kuper
Read more

“Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.”

Mehmet Murat ildan
Read more