Animal Quote by Christopher Dawson

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary…

— Jo Nesbo

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

— H. G. Wells

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

— Mercy Otis Warren

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or…

— Jonathan Swift

“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter…

— Robert Greene

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself…

— Michel de Montaigne

“No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and…

— Denis Diderot

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything…

— Thomas Paine