Advancement Quote by H. Jay Dinshah

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't…

— Mark Twain

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the…

— George Combe

“Sweep aside those parasites of subsidized classrooms, who live on the profits of the mind of others and proclaim that man needs no morality,…

— Ayn Rand

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

— Erving Goffman

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from…

— Northrop Frye

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

— Anonymous

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes…

— Plato

“As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function…

— Mark Twain

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

— George Bernard Shaw

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human…

— C. S. Lewis

The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and…

— Charles Darwin