animals quotes

• If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. (William Morris) [degradation/being/animals/men]
• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain) [animals/pain/pleasure]
• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. (Joseph Addison) [animals/generation/men/wisdom]
• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ( Aristotle) [animals/right/]
• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. (Samuel Butler) [animals/business/life]
• Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. (Samuel Butler) [animals/virtue/gold/more]
• Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. (Leonard Cohen) [life/speech/animals/eyes]
• Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. ( Confucius) [mankind/animals/people]
• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. (Umberto Eco) [thing/animals/more/pleasure]
• Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. (Albert Einstein) [animals]
• Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. (George Eliot) [animals/agreeable]
• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Mahatma Gandhi) [greatness/animals]
• Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. (Georg Hegel) [animals/soul & body/right/life]
• Animals often strike us as passionate machines. (Eric Hoffer) [animals/strike]
• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. (Victor Hugo) [animals/men/time/animals]
• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. (Henrik Ibsen) [scientists/animals/politicians]
• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. (Rudyard Kipling) [being/more/animals]
• To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [human/animals]
• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [god/animals]
• There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. (H. L. Mencken) [people/animals/death/state]
• I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [fear/animals/fashion]
• Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. (Thomas Love Peacock) [more/animals]
• Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. (George Bernard Shaw) [human/animals]
• Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. (Adam Smith) [mankind/animals]
• I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. (Henry David Thoreau) [human/animals/more]
• This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. (Walt Whitman) [love/sun/animals/give]
• I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles. (Amy Weber) [housing/animals/wild]
• not smart animals, which is why people do get bit once in a while. I was wearing a wet suit that was silver. So when I move around, it believed my head was a fish. So this shark with his mouth open was coming towards my head. I pushed it away because I freaked out. And the director later told me that that was happening to my double all day. He was like, 'I wasn't sure if it was going to happen to you.' I'm like, 'Thanks for the heads up!' (Jessica Alba) [animals/people/director/day]
• I've Been reading about reincarnation, and the buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings, theyre just like us. So i say fuck the buddhists ( Bjork) [reading/animals]
• If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. (Antonio Banderas) [animals/think]
• I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. (Casey Affleck) [process/animals/housing/wild]

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