Animals Quote by Herbert Spencer Download Open image “What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.” — Herbert Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animals Beast Law Selfish Selfish Man Selfishness Wild beast
“The Jungle Law is a law without exceptions. Only the strong survives. Animals are following it, human societies are following it. It is the… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In his eyes, as in the eyes of all Forsytes, the pleasure of seeing these beautiful creatures in a state of captivity far outweighed… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed,… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
“The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“As an animal lover, I don’t like zoos. I feel the only creatures that should be caged behind bars are politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
