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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
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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 banishedand experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
— Steve Toltz
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
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
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
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
— D.H. Lawrence
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
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
— Anthony D. Williams
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
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 humanZarek — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
— Erich Fromm
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
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 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
