Animal Man Quotes
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Man is the Storytelling Animal, and that in stories are his identity, his meaning, and his lifeblood.
— Salman Rushdie
Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
— Mahatma Gandhi
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
— Ambrose Bierce
Man is a thinking animal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
— Ambrose Bierce
Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.
— George Stillman Hillard
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
— Jimmy Durante
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.
— Sathya Sai Baba
No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.
— Remy De Gourmont
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
— Ambrose Bierce
Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
— Charles Darwin
It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.
— Anthony D. Williams
It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.
— Lawrence Okafor
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
— George Bernard Shaw
Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.
— Manoj Vaz
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals
— George Bernard Shaw
Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.
— James Tiptree Jr.
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
— Bill Mollison
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
— Albert Einstein
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
— Immanuel Kant
Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals. — Heinrich Heine
the aristocrat amongst the animals. — Heinrich Heine
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight
— Mark Twain
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
— John Steinbeck
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
— Erving Goffman
Man is no man, but a wolf
— Plautus
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
— Bertrand Russell
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
— Jacob Bronowski
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
— Fernando Pessoa
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
— Anatole France
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
— Clifford Geertz
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
— Friedrich Schiller
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
— Alex Epstein
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
understand: Man is not a lovable animal. — Edward Abbey
understand: Man is not a lovable animal. — Edward Abbey
Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.
— Primo Levi
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
— Rebecca West
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
— Richard Wagner
He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal.
— Terry Pratchett
[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
— Charles Darwin
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
— Gautama Buddha
Man is a tool-using animal.
— Thomas Carlyle
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Is there any thinking animal like man?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
— Frederick The Great
Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels
— Robert A. Heinlein
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
— Swami Vivekananda
The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.
— Hiram Powers
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
— Thomas Jefferson
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
— Robert Breault
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
— Robert Jordan
God creates the animals, man creates himself.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle.
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
— Peter Singer
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Behold, man and animal are brothers
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal
— Justin Southwick
If Man is not a divinity, then Man is a disease. Either he is the image of God, or else he is the one animal which has gone mad.
— G.K. Chesterton
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
— Austin O'Malley