Animal Quotes

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Man is by nature a political animal.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.