Animalistic Quote by Frans de Waal

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

— Anthony D. Williams

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most…

— Gregory Maguire

If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals…

— Ruth Harrison

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus…

— Immanuel Kant

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

— Isaac Asimov

“Some people Are worthy of a bullet straight to the heart because that is where cruelty evolves into evil. Some humans aren't human at…

— Ellen Hopkins

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

— George Bernard Shaw

When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’.…

— Philip Wollen

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our…

— Jane Goodall

To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

— Franz Kafka

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

— Jane Goodall