Creatures Quotes - Page 39

• God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Destiny, Joy, Worthy

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• Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

  L. Neil Smith

  Liberty, Rope, Wealth

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Blood, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Love, Beautiful, Taken

  "Pure Inspiration From Dustin Lance Black" by Caroline Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2017.

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• Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.

  Katie MacAlister

  Sex, Causes, Vixens

  Katie Macalister (2005). “Blow Me Down”, p.99, Penguin

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• The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Sex, Media, Film

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• I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross

  Kim Deal

  Sweet, Thinking, Pigs

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• The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly
  attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our
  young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making,
  societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex
  between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of
  reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will
  of God.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Sex, Reading

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• We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Stories, Language

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• I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.645, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

  Edna O'Brien

  Grew

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being

  Robert Greene

  Animal, Important, Reason

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• When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Teaching, Son

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

  John Fowles

  Men, Tree, Sailor

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• For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Historical, Desire

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

  Frans de Waal

  Giving, Empathy, Brain

  "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?". The Chronicle, October 26, 2001.

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

  William Henry Hudson

  Life, Art, Nature

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• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  Thomas Ken

  Life, Running, Morning

  "Awake my soul, and with the sun" (hymn) (1695)

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• You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

  Mark Lynas

  Mean, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Animal, Majority, Bats

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.156, Modern Library

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• We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured how we came to be.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Law, Brain, Proud

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.233, Penguin

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• I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Effort, Ornaments, Pandas

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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