Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
