Quotes About Predation

#1. What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

Robert Charles Wilson

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

Nicholas D. Kristof

#3. The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#4. Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#5. You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

Ilana Mercer

#6. The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property;

Murray N. Rothbard

#7. Life is of course a misnomer, since viruses, lacking the ability to eat or respire, are officially dead, which is in itself intriguing, showing as it does that the habit of predation can be taken up by clusters of molecules that are in no way alive.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#8. The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

Mark O'Connell

#9. All the explanations proposed seem to be
only partly satisfactory. They range from massive climatic change to mammalian predation to the extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.

Carl Sagan

#10. Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

Geoff Mulgan

#11. Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.

Jackson Landers

#12. at least some paleontologists believe that the demise
of the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. Two chicken eggs for breakfast may be all-at least on the surface-that is left of this ancient mammalian cuisine.

Carl Sagan

#13. I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the face of predation, life in the wake of whaling ships.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#14. I don't know any woman who hasn't experienced some level of sexual predation, from catcalls, to unwanted advances at bars, to emotional manipulation, to violent rape. I certainly have - even "unrapeable" me. All women do need to worry about rape.

Lindy West

#15. 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.

Murray N. Rothbard

#16. Any future can be!" she replied, laughing at me. "If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?

Robin Hobb

#17. You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem.

Ian McKellen

#18. An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Rusty Schweickart

#19. I eat you, life; you make me living eat.

William Kean Seymour

#20. They called him Mir, which to these people meant the world beneath the world.

Stephen King

#21. Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

Robert Frost

#22. [Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Miles Davis

#23. Why did I choose to fight him? He was going to die whether I fought him or not, and he was dangerous, half my age and a warrior. But it is reputation, always reputation. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues.

Bernard Cornwell

#24. Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

Eric Liu

#25. If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

Tanya Masse