The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson 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
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal. — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The [human] animal cannot cope with [dense confinement]; indeed, it is programmed to resist it. It must resist it, in the interest… — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication 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
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
I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
“The human animal needs meaning as well as food and air and sex and water. The sense that life is meaningless is… — Robert Moss 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
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover,… — Herbert Hoover 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
And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding… — Phyllis McGinley 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
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“His father, who had rebelled early against his Scots Presbyterian upbringing and declared himself an “intellectual agnostic”—or had it been “agnostic intellectual”?—had… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I understand what writing is; what… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is along the strands of the world that the privilege of possessing children is most blatantly seen. What torment for the… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all… — Henry Spira Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
“Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Most moral philosophers consciously or unconsciously assume the essential correctness of our cultural sexual code — family, monogamy, continence, the postulate of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What finally turned me back toward the older traditions of my own [Chickasaw] and other Native peoples was the inhumanity of the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for a man to be a good man when he is also a bad man? Is it possible for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“If the human race ever wishes to master time travel then the answer is through chemical and not mechanical means. Speed is… — Steven LaVey Copy Share Image