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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a… — William Ralph Inge
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — Robertson Davies
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. — George Berkeley
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. — John Wilmot
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few… — Henry Ward Beecher
You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does. — P.J. O'Rourke
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals. — Albert Schweitzer
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal. — John Dewey
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,… — Henry Beston
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God. — John Henry Newman
Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals. — Doreen Virtue
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is… — Dalai Lama
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad… — Donald Trump
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has… — Stephen Fry
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished… — James Stewart

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