Animals Quote by Frans de Waal

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to…

— Nancy Hale

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

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

— Albert Einstein

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

— Jane Goodall

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in…

— Jane Goodall

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's…

— Joy Williams

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

— Charles Darwin

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

— Radhanath Swami