Animals Quote by Hediger

“Maybe creatures that are not like each other are supposed to hurt each other to find out which one is stronger, so that the…

— Isaac Marion

“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.”

— Augustine of Hippo

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the…

— Yann Martel

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

— J. K. Bharavi

“All opponents are not necessarily enemies. But both enemies and opponents carry certain characteristics in common. Both perceive their opposite as an obstacle, or…

— Timothy Zahn

The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your…

— Tom Tryon

“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this…

— George Eliot

“It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in…

— Jacques Rancière

“We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever…

— Murray Leinster

“We live in dramatic times. Violent confrontations are erupting in all parts of the world. Instinctively we feel that it does not have to…

— Dominique De Menil

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“...human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence…

— Jonathan Kirsch