Animal Quote by Douglas McGregor

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

— Abraham Maslow

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

— Henry George

“All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form”

— The Cruxshadows

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most…

— Erich Fromm

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

— Aristotle

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

— Democritus

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has…

— Ludwig von Mises

A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind…

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is a reasoning Animal.

— Seneca the Younger

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

— Plutarch