The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...
Konrad LorenzI believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
Konrad LorenzThe truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
Konrad LorenzIn nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
Konrad Lorenz