156 quotes found
“Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.”
“I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There'...”
“Try repeating man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way to get this idea into our heads, except by long rumination over the facts of evoluti...”
“I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There...”
“Some say we are not like humans but we are more like them than we are different. Man and animals are in the same species as mammals as they have mammary glands that produce the milk to nurse their ...”
“Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.”
“Oh, how an animal that is hurt looks up at you, John! An animals actions can inform you if it is in pain. It dont hop and jump around as usual. No. You find a sad, crouching, cringing, small bunch ...”
“When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes waste...”
“I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition t...”
“Is there any thinking animal like man?”
“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.”
“You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.”
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than re...”
“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reach...”
“People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.”
“The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human.”
“Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.”
“We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.”
“I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softly against my cheek. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and I could not...”
“Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will b...”
