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«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| Keywords:
achievement, affection, aspire, beast, direct, direct marketing, For each, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, human beings, idol, in a higher place, market, mutual, mutual affection, prey, preyed, preying, preys, the market, to a higher place
«Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.»
«Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.»
«I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.»
«Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: / And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.»
«So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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A.D., ad infinitum, flea, fleas, naturalist, naturalists, prey, smaller
«Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accumulates, fares, hastening, prey
«Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
bargain, bargaining, beasts, biologically, considered, formidable, in the bargain, one species, prey, preyed, preying, preys, species, systematically, The Bargain
«If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bloodthirstiness, eradicate, eradicating, fittest, hunt, prey, primitive, promised, rivals, survival of the fittest