Animal Quote by John Wesley

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not the cruelty…

— Matthew Scully

“Because they are naturally ferocious, and ferocity, like maliciousness, begets suspicion; a remark which is true of man as well as of animals. A…

— Doma Publishing House

When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and…

— Michel Foucault

“There are humans versus humans in a jungle of predators; humans full of judgment, full of blame, full of guilt, full of emotional poison…

— Miguel Ruiz

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does he not…

— David Hume

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

— Bertrand Russell

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel…

— Gary Larson

“These were strange, freakish, and dangerous creatures, the likes of which might well have brought Darwin himself to despair with their obvious lack of…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky