Animal Quotes - Page 19

• One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Soul, One Day, Slavery

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• I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

  James Cromwell

  Fun, Personality, Vegetarian

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• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Lying, Son

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.383

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• Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Purpose, Mouths

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Funny, Creativity, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• A committee is an animal with four back legs.

  John le Carre

  Legs, Four, Committees

  1974 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, pt.3, ch.34.

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Motivational, Laughter

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

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• Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

  Eric Hoffer

  Machines, Passionate, Strikes

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

  Romain Rolland

  Funny, Money, Men

  "The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations". Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Believe, Men

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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

  Peter Singer

  Brain, Important, Would Be

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• This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

  Edward Thorndike

  Men, Numbers, Growth

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Humorous, Men, Reason

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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• God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

  Arthur Young

  Inspirational, God, Sleep

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• Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

  A. A. Milne

  Kindness, Mean, Want

  "The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Marriage, Dog

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.80, Vintage

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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• We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

  Farley Mowat

  Motivational, Reality, Savages

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Play, Together, Dolphins

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• It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Learning, Humility

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

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Men, History

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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

  Janine Turner

  Integrity, Believe, Maintaining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

  Anatole France

  Men, Literature, Way

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

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