Animal instinct Quote by Rochelle Magee

“Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans…

— John Gray

“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than others do.…

— Mohammad Qutub

“No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts. (90)”

— JM Coetzee

“In our minds we can proceed without hesitation to the place we might never go in our own lives. There is an opportunity to…

— K. Kiker

“Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of the animal…

— Ellen G. White

“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

“Many of the physical desires and emotions are akin to those of the lower animals, and in the undeveloped man these desires and emotions…

— Yogi Ramacharaka

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

“There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires…

— Claire Messud

“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards,…

— Matthew Scully

“It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways…

— Fiona Thrust

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