--- title: "11 Animality Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Animality quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Animality sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/munia-khan-1618_dark_wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just_2873608.jpg" --- > [“Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/munia-khan/wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just-like-the-way-men-fail-to/) [Munia Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/munia-khan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/munia-khan-1618_dark_wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just_2873608.jpg) > [The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-frederic-amiel/the-laws-of-animality-govern-almost-the-whole-of-history/) [Henri Frederic Amiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-frederic-amiel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/henri-frederic-amiel-1276_history_the-laws-of-animality-govern-almost-the_2399587.png) > [If you deny animality present within, you deny your very source of life. And then you will always be false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/senoraroy/if-you-deny-animality-present-within-you-deny-your-very-source-of/) [Senoraroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/senoraroy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/senoraroy-77_be-positive_if-you-deny-animality-present-within-you_455634.jpg) > [“What exists are not separated animals, but an inter-animality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/what-exists-are-not-separated-animals-but-an-inter-animality/) [Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b12/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_animal_what-exists-are-not-separated-animals-bu_3099992.jpg) > [We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/we-might-even-define-the-human-as-a-dynamic-process-produced-by-a/) [Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e75/simon-critchley-11984_humans_we-might-even-define-the-human-as-a-dyna_880114.jpg) > [“The relation of the human & animality is not a hierarchical relation, but lateral, an overcoming that does not abolish kinship”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/the-relation-of-the-human-animality-is-not-a-hierarchical-relation/) [Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad8/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_nature-of-man_the-relation-of-the-human-animality-is-n_2186388.jpg) > [If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter animality into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saadat-hasan-manto/if-a-man-has-to-make-a-woman-the-center-of-his-love-then-why-does-he/) [Saadat Hasan Manto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saadat-hasan-manto/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/saadat-hasan-manto-33134_love_if-a-man-has-to-make-a-woman-the-center_2690805.jpg) > [Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mathieu-amalric/acting-is-about-animality-it-s-great-to-be-allowed-to-be-animal-but-i/) [Mathieu Amalric](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mathieu-amalric/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f3/mathieu-amalric-29777_about_acting-is-about-animality-it-s-great-to_1971689.jpg) > [“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-henry-abbott/the-only-time-they-appear-human-is-when-you-have-a-knife-at-their/) [Jack Henry Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-henry-abbott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/jack-henry-abbott-37565_prison-guards_the-only-time-they-appear-human-is-when_2130605.jpg) > [Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-mumford/unable-to-create-a-meaningful-life-for-itself-the-personality-takes/) [Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-mumford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3e/lewis-mumford-2870_chaos_unable-to-create-a-meaningful-life-for-i_1956736.jpg) > [“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-adams/animals-don-t-behave-like-men-he-said-if-they-have-to-fight-they/) [Richard Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/richard-adams-4326_animals_animals-don-t-behave-like-men-he-said-if_859807.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animality/#itemlist", "name": "Animality Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Munia Khan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/munia-khan/wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just-like-the-way-men-fail-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/munia-khan-1618_dark_wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just_2873608.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/munia-khan-1618_dark_wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just_2873608.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/munia-khan-1618_dark_wolves-fail-to-hide-their-integrity-just_2873608.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.” — Munia Khan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henri Frederic Amiel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-frederic-amiel/the-laws-of-animality-govern-almost-the-whole-of-history/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/henri-frederic-amiel-1276_history_the-laws-of-animality-govern-almost-the_2399587.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/henri-frederic-amiel-1276_history_the-laws-of-animality-govern-almost-the_2399587.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/henri-frederic-amiel-1276_history_the-laws-of-animality-govern-almost-the_2399587.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.” — Henri Frederic Amiel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you deny animality present within, you deny your very source of life. 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Obscenity.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jack Henry Abbott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-henry-abbott/the-only-time-they-appear-human-is-when-you-have-a-knife-at-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/jack-henry-abbott-37565_prison-guards_the-only-time-they-appear-human-is-when_2130605.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/jack-henry-abbott-37565_prison-guards_the-only-time-they-appear-human-is-when_2130605.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/jack-henry-abbott-37565_prison-guards_the-only-time-they-appear-human-is-when_2130605.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. 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