Ants Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to…

— Penn Jillette

“Sharks are workers like the critics remoras.”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority…

— L. Neil Smith

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it…

— Robert Baden-Powell

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes…

— Fannie Flagg

Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites…

— William T. Vollmann

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

— Bert Holldobler

“THE FIGHTERS ARE TINY. INSECTS, REALLY. BUT ANTS CAN SLAY AN ELEPHANT, IF THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM. ESPECIALLY ANTS ARMED WITH HIGH-YIELD EXPLOSIVES…

— Amie Kaufman

There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance.…

— Raph Koster

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

— Lauren Oliver