Animal Quote by Arthur Koestler

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

— Aldous Huxley

“the medical journal The Lancet explained the process by which the dreadfuls could foster violence. People of a lower evolutionary type, the journal said,…

— Kate Summerscale

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long…

— Pythagoras

Historically the biggest killer of Man has not been animal but Man him self.

— Anonymous

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

“This trait has direct animal precursors – namely, the contests between competing individuals and groups that, in many species besides our own, may be…

— Jared Diamond

“(It can be argued that the current rise of serial killers can be perhaps attributed to a new evolutionary prerogative for the demise of…

— Peter Vronsky

“It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of…

— Vera Brittain

“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to…

— Joseph de Maistre

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

— Frans de Waal

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

— Arthur Koestler