Creatures Quotes

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I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not… — Richard Adams
Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across… — John Banville
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through… — George Orwell
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. — John Marshall
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it — Finley Peter Dunne
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty… — Mohsin Hamid
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,… — Carl Jung
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial… — Karl Marx
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world… — Martin Heidegger
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as… — Pindar
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done. — Sappho
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. — Plutarch
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful… — Doris Humphrey
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any… — Leo Tolstoy
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to… — John Brunner
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors Ã¦ons ago. — Olaf Stapledon
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a… — Brian Aldiss

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