Quotes with ferocity

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity

  ― Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

  ― E. M. Cioran
  French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inclinations
• intolerances
• interested
• ourselves
• murderous
• attended

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