Animal Quotes - page 4

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! (Kurt Vonnegut)
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. View quote
Paul Theroux
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. View quote
Wendell Phillips
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. View quote
H. Allen Smith
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. View quote
William Ralph Inge
Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. View quote
Ogden Nash
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. (Edith Hamilton)
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. View quote
Aldous Huxley
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. View quote
Franz Kafka
Man is the cruelest animal. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. View quote
Neal Barnard
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. View quote
Novak Djokovic
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market. View quote
Juan Manuel Santos
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world? (Ismail Kadaré)
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. View quote
Edward Thorndike
The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. View quote
Jilly Cooper
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