The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the inherent violence in human nature and society while also acknowledging beauty and grace.
Sam Peckinpah's quote presents a stark view of humanity, asserting that beneath the surface of civilization, we are driven by primal instincts, primarily violence. He critiques the romanticized notion of humans as noble beings, suggesting instead that we are complex creatures capable of both brutality and beauty, and encourages an honest recognition of our darker traits alongside our capacity for kindness and artistry.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the duality of human nature.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?
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