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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. — Edward Thorndike

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

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified. — Jerry Vlasak

The human is the only guilty animal. — John Steinbeck

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks

Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. — Robert Breault

You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. — Mary Oliver

High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. — Mark Twain

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. — Plautus

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. — Compton Mackenzie

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once. — Jimmy Durante

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to. — Mark Twain

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton

Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room. — Alex Flinn

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ... — Isak Dinesen

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind. — Alice Walker

You have noticed, I hope, that man is the only amateur animal; all the other are professionals. — C.S. Lewis

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat. — L.M. Montgomery

No Kill may be defined by what happens to the animals within the halls of the shelter, but it can only be achieved by what happens outside of them. — Nathan Winograd

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo

Ben tasted like wine; felt animal beneath her hands; chased away the shadows until her room was only darkness, only them, nothing wicked. — Lauren Gilley

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach. — Glen Duncan

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. — Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity. — Colin Wilson

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails. — Jules Renard

Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. — Peter Steinhart

The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction. — Hanif Kureishi

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 to borrow tools. — Tim Allen

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? — George Eliot

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him. — Manoj Vaz

The human animal only sees what it wants to see. — Marcia Muller

Allow the power to flow through you. Don't try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it. — G.G. Collins

You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand. — Ilie Ruby

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. — Robert Breault

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. — W.S. Gilbert

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful. — John Carroll

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency. — Hal Herzog

Grieving the loss of a loved one - whether human or animal - is not only permissible, it is essential. — Linda Bender

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts. — Melina Sempill Watts

Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank. — Richard Jeni

It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon. — Matsuo Basho

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement. — Christian Morgenstern

The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position. — Allen MacDiarmid

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright. — Philemon

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home. — Bill Cosby

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans. — Anton Newcombe

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir! — Charles Dickens

But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself. — China Mieville

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction. — O. Henry

Men! The only animal in the world to fear. — D.H. Lawrence

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders. — Cesar Millan

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy. — Swami Vivekananda

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony. — Anton Szandor LaVey

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

Social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious. — Wilhelm Reich

They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino. — Dana Gould

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity. — Anthony D. Williams

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle.

We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species. — Sharon Gannon

Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone. — David Letterman

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. — Ogden Nash

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. — Swami Vivekananda

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

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction. — Pierre Daninos

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off. — Rock Hudson

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up. — Charles R. Swindoll

The only good cage is an empty cage. — Lawrence Anthony

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

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

Man is the only animal that can be bored. — Erich Fromm

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. Chuang Tzu — Sung Yee Poon

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed. — Brigitte Bardot

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight — Mark Twain

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. — Marcus Aurelius

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me! — Dionne Bromfield

Man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk. — Jeannie Gunn

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. — John Muir

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. — Henry George

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. — William Ernest Hocking

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. — Carl Van Vechten

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all. — Anthony D. Williams

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around — Taiichi Ohno

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster. — Robin Hobb

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. — Erich Fromm

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof. — Ted Nugent