The next time you have an instinct to help someone, you might consider crushing them instead. It might save you a great deal of trouble.
When a fox hears a rabbit scream, he comes running. But not to help.
There’s a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.
Instinct’s a funny thing.
Almost anything can be trained to resist its instinct.
Decisions based on emotion aren’t decisions, at all. They’re instincts. Which can be of value. The rational and the irrational complement each other. Individually they’re far less powerful.
A hundred thousand years ago there were people who stayed by the campfire and people who wandered. I’m pretty sure I’m a direct descendent of the wandering type. It’s just who I am.[to Roscoe]
Your intellect may have got you here, but it will be your instincts that will make you special agents.
When an animal wants something, when it needs something, other things need to be stepped on.
When a civilization acts in opposition to its instincts, it may be under the influence of something, or someone, new.
Sometimes you need to take what you think you know, throw it out the window, and follow your instincts because your life depends on it.
Hunger turns men into beasts.
