Edward Gibbon Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Animal, Law

• The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Animal, Law, Return

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.86

• Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Animal, Dominion, Toil

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

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