Animal Quote by Martin Seligman

Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and were selected…

— Patricia Churchland

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is…

— Yann Martel

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

— Tacitus

“When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious”

— Rochelle Magee

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately…

— Russell Brand

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.

— Alexander McQueen

“Unlike captive animals, people’s perceptions of control or helplessness aren’t entirely dictated by outside forces. We have the ability to create choice by altering…

— Sheena Iyengar

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges…

— Desmond Morris

“Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any…

— Anonymous