The human animal varies from class to class, culture to…

“In people’s lives and worldviews, concerns about economics, race, gender, class, and culture all blend together.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

— Nick Love

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

— Tom Brokaw

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

— Rita Mae Brown

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what…

— Rita Mae Brown

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the…

— Rita Mae Brown

“The [human] animal cannot cope with [dense confinement]; indeed, it is programmed to resist it. It must resist it, in the interest of survival.”

— John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

— Herbert Hoover

Both human and animal emotions are slaves

— Mak_786

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.

— Harold Klemp

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life…

— Bertrand Russell

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define…

— Michael Pollan

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable…

— George Horace Lorimer

“The human animal needs meaning as well as food and air and sex and water. The sense that life is meaningless is at the…

— Robert Moss