
The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel. —
Jacob Bronowski

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals —
Edwin Land

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. —
John Galsworthy

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity. —
Terence McKenna

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. —
Noam Chomsky

HAC: Human-Animal Conflict. —
James Patterson

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. —
J.J. Abrams

There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life. —
Harold Klemp

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. —
Robert Breault

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. —
Malcolm De Chazal

Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is....it is the indomitable spirit within that makes him human. —
Steven Lang

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. —
William Godwin

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. —
Simone De Beauvoir

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. —
J.M. Coetzee

Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. only instead of turning a man into an animal, she has made the animal human
Zarek —
Sherrilyn Kenyon

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost. —
T. Thorn Coyle

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. —
H.L. Mencken

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals. —
Averroes

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. —
Samuel Johnson

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. —
Alan Keyes