Animals Quote by James Thurber

“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”

— Matthew Scully

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

— Erving Goffman

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day.…

— Evan Davis

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

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

— Herman Melville

“Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is structured to…

— Bob Torres

“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards…

— H.G. Wells

“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the…

— Hal Herzog

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of…

— H.G. Wells

“It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often…

— Kaushik Basu

“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same…

— Gertrude Stein