Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to read more

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting read more

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it read more

What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.

You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.

. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, read more

. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we read more

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.