Other Animals Quotes

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It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic… — Noam Chomsky
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is… — C.S. Lewis
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs.… — Derek Parfit
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly… — Charles Darwin
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension… — Edward Albee
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too,… — Charlotte Ross
Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might… — Alicia Silverstone
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as… — Peter Singer
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in… — Peter Singer
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to… — Peter Singer
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about… — Robert Breault
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. — Erving Goffman
Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them… — Sydney M. Lamb
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see… — Ovid
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which… — Giorgio Vasari

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