Animals Quote by Eudora Welty

“If we're the only animals who know in advance we're going to die, we're also probably the only animals who would submit so cheerfully…

— David Foster Wallace

“After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.”

— Aharon Feldman

“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.”

— Peter Brannen

“One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently.”

— Diane van der Westhuizen

“ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH. —PETE RICHERSON AND ROBERT BOYD”

— Peter Watts

“What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to…

— Terry Pratchett

“I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as…

— John Muir

“You'd rather be a simpler animal.”

— Donika Kelly

“This world has seen the birth of several strange animals.”

— Jindrich Styrsky