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Animal Quotes by Mark Twain
- Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
- Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
- Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
- I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
- Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
- It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most…
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide…
- It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from…
- There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
- Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his…
- I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and…
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
- Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word…
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and…
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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