Cages Quote by Massad Ayoob

“All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.”

— David Rains Wallace

“Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.”

— Jackson Landers

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to…

— Susan Estrich

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

— Tom Stoppard

You're the predator right up until you're prey.

— James S.A. Corey

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger…

— Gale Norton

“Unsportsmanlike predator-killing is always rationalized as defence of property—usually someone else’s property. This excuse is getting too thin to pass muster among thinking conservationists.”

— Aldo Leopold

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between…

— Dale Jamieson

“A predator is what you are, and nothing you can do will change that. But being a killer is a choice you make. That’s…

— Obie Williams

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates…

— E. O. Wilson