#prey

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. ↗

— John Gay

#every #flocks #herd #herds #his

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#beings #fishermen #human #human beings #humanity

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#again #alive #another #back #brings

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#been #bulk #countries #indeed #made

You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote! ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#faythe-sanders #funny #prey #sarcastic #funny

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#attain #because #beings #communicate #decent

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#prey #smell #usually #weakness

Empathy...must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. ↗

— Philip K Dick

#predator #prey #society #diet

I´ve read that it´s the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#harry-hole #jo-nesbø #prey #smell #the-snowman