Animal Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form…

— Paul Auster

“This was his glory and his guilt-- that he let them teach him to feel guilty of his glory, to accept the part of…

— Ayn Rand

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,…

— Georges Cuvier

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a rule led…

— Primo Levi

Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine…

— John Muir

In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his…

— John Muir

“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields…

— Leo Tolstoy

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made…

— Jean Itard

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more…

— Anonymous

By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven,…

— Thomas Traherne