“When enemy is thought of as filth, war is conceived as a grand hygiene operation.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“War is both intensely horrible and exquisitely pleasurable. It is horrible because of the danger and suffering that soldiers and civilians endure, and the unavoidable guilt that comes with killing. It is pleasurable because -like all pleasures- it is something that benefited our ancient ancestors who were victors in the bloddy struggle for resources.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“The joy of war is the joy of the huntm of bringing down game, of ridding the world of a man-eating monster or obliterating a plague.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“Our relationship with killing is ambivalent, a compound of pleasure and aversion. Both are deeply rooted in human nature, and neither can be extirpated.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“Faithfulness looks like stepping forward without certainty and learning to trust that God is already at work, especially in the places we have been taught not to look.”
“Our feelings of sympathy do not embrace all of humanity in equal measure. Some human beings matter to us. We care intensely about their well-being. Others do not matter very much, and still others do not matter at all. This is a hard saying, and may be difficult to accept but it is obviously and undeniably true.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“Our fascination with the cosmos is of the same nature as the feeling that inspired ancient creation myths. It is rooted in the desire to understand the origin and the destiny of the universe, its overral design, and how we humans fit into the general scheme of things.”
Source: Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes
“Dumb people plucked the roots, then blamed each fruit for not growing..”
“Your art has the power to move a human, and challenge the conventional.”
Source: Orenda - flash fiction based in modern India
“We all have expiry dates, but we don’t know them yet!”
Source: Orenda - flash fiction based in modern India