Mere Animal Quotes
- Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
- Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but… — Swami Vivekananda
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson
- The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology… — Michael Pollan