Affectionate Quote by Benjamin Spock

“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that [humans] are not gentle creatures who want to…

— Sigmund Freud

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

“For these creatures(humans) are for the most part malevolent and murderous by nature, able to tolerate others only insofar as they resemble themselves, capable…

— Doris Lessing

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

— Alexander Hamilton

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

— Konrad Lorenz

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

— George Bernard Shaw

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and…

— Albert Einstein

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short,…

— Dalai Lama

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death…

— Clarence Darrow

“Because they are naturally ferocious, and ferocity, like maliciousness, begets suspicion; a remark which is true of man as well as of animals. A…

— Doma Publishing House

People are vicious animals that will turn on you in an instant. Yet we open our hearts to them. Because they define and shape…

— Anonymous