The Animal Quotes
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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
— Honore De Balzac
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
— Louise Leakey
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
— Andre Maurois
The human is the only guilty animal.
— John Steinbeck
The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.
— Nathan Runkle
There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.
— Patricia Engel
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.
— Rose Wilder Lane
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
— Malcolm De Chazal
For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
— Bernard Rudofsky
I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
— Toni Morrison
I wonder what the animal's name was.
— Pittacus Lore
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
— L.M. Montgomery
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
— Pliny The Elder
The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.
— Usama Fayyad
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.
— Doreen Virtue
Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.
— Manoj Vaz
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
— Barry Lopez
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
— Henry Fielding
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
— Ingrid Newkirk
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
— Wilhelm Reich
The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.
— Mona Simpson
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— Thomas Aquinas
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
— Anthony D. Williams
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He
— Tariq Ramadan
Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.
— Wayne Pacelle
Even now, as we speak, people are having sex with animals. And we wonder why the animals attack us.
— Dave Attell
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Report in The Economist as much as 97 per cent of the world's plant and animal species may still await discovery. Of
— Bill Bryson
One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.
— Lawrence Durrell
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
— Lord Mountbatten
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal ... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
— Theophile Gautier
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
— Robley Wilson
All the animals come out at night.
— Paul Schrader
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
— John Locke
Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.
— Cassandra Clare
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
— Stephen Jay Gould
No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.
— Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
— William Shakespeare
If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.
— Gary L. Francione
I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.
— Amanda Mosher
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
— Peter Dinklage
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
— H.L. Mencken
Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.
— Joseph Pilates
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
— Victor Gollancz
Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.
— Ian Hunter
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H.L. Mencken
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
— Claire Coffee
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
— Swami Vivekananda
For the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended.
— Philip Wollen
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
— Louis Agassiz
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
— Maria Montessori
From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
— William Inge
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
— Albert Schweitzer
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
— D.H. Lawrence
Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals.
— David Letterman
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
— Edward Abbey
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
— Kingsley Amis
By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.
— Sharon Gannon
Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
— Georges Bataille
