Human Animal Quotes

43 quotes by 42 authors

There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least… — Stephen King
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason… — Burl Ives
Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the… — Gary Yourofsky
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered… — Dorothea Lange
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. — Kingsley Amis
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us… — Sebastian Barry
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A… — Ingrid Newkirk
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely… — Ernest Becker
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason… — Alfred Kinsey
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp… — Blaise Cendrars
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female… — Marilyn Frye
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space.… — Robert L. Geddes
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked… — Asger Jorn
The human animal only sees what it wants to see. — Marcia Muller
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. — H. Allen Smith
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal. — Jeff Corwin
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast… — David Zindell
How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that… — Valerie Martin
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. — Leon Kass

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