“while the modern, human animal is capable of deep thought and, like its mammalian forebears, can nurture and play, it also is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be… — John Gray Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing,… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals… — Don Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Fear is the engine that drives the human animal. Humanity sees the world as a place of uncountable threats, and so the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in… — Robert L. Geddes Copy Share Image
I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals,… — Louis J. Camuti Copy Share Image
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal. — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.” — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
We all need to listen to our empathy and step towards kindness and I think books help you to remember that you're… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the… — Peter Shepherd Copy Share Image
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image