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- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to…
- So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,…
- The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the…
- 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,…
- Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
- Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him…
- Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense…
- We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which…
- Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
- The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
- There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
- The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies,…
- It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have…
- We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest…
- In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend…
- With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process…
- The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone…
- The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is…
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough