Animal Quotes

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

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

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.