Animal Quote by Aristotle

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without…

— Aristotle

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

— Aristotle

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than…

— Aristotle

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the…

— George Combe

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes…

— Plato

“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all; since armed…

— Rebecca Johns

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

— David Starr Jordan

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell…

— Anonymous

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

— Thomas Jefferson

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

— Erich Fromm

“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this…

— Ernest Becker