Animal Quotes - Page 23

• Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Engineering, Goal

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• What makes a home home? Animals, and a little bit of clutter.

  Chevy Chase

  Home, Littles, Clutter

  "Chevy Chase: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sympathy, Believe, Charitable Work

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• A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Horse, Men, Clothes

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• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

  Ernest Becker

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• ...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

  Jeannie Gunn

  Women, Strikes, Folks

  Jeannie Gunn (1908). “We of the Never-Never: A Novel”

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• Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.

  James Hansen

  Years, Generations, Half

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady . . . I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?

  Sylvia Plath

  Frustration, Feelings, Males

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Details, Adaptation, Habit

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

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• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Organization, Habit, Instinct

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). “The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise”, p.267, London, Macmillan

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• Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Religious, Pain, Discipline

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• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Cancer, Fighting, Medicine

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• I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer, is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate?

  Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

  Cancer, Health, Mind

  "Threescore: The Autobiography of Sarah N. Cleghorn".

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• A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

  Paul Bloom

  God, Men, Creating

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• For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom.

  Tom Feeney

  God, Believe, Native American

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• Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Twilight, Men, Thinking

  Hugh MacLennan (2011). “Voices in Time”, p.182, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

  Arthur Koestler

  Eye, Men, Self

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• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Men, Scary

  William Jennings Bryan, Joe Cain (2009). “William Jennings Bryan's Last Message: A Reprint of His Famous Closing Arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Undelivered and Posthumously Published”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.

  Leo Baekeland

  Ignorance, Humility, Humble

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• Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Men, Perfection

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• If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Believe, Gay, Expression

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• Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Cat, Humanity, Strikes

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1989). “The Cat Who Went Underground”, p.59, Penguin

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• These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

  E. O. Wilson

  Feet, Years, People

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• The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, in order to defend themselves from new enemies; or they must be reduced in size so as to escape detection and danger. When they migrate into a colder climate they must become clothed with thicker fur, or have their constitutions altered. If they fail to be thus modified, they will cease to exist.

  Charles Darwin

  Hands, Order, Enemy

  Charles Darwin (1952). “The origin of species by means of natural selection: The descent of man and selection in relation to sex”

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• Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Pain, Race

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