Animal Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animals Legislature
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at? — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler 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
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer 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
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione 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
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel 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
