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Animal Quotes by George Eliot
- Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
- Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
- But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in…
- The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
- We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
- If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far…
More Animal Quotes
- 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