Nature of man Quote by Voltaire

“his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We”

— Lea Wait

“...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with…

— Benjamin Percy

“They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by…

— Jack London

“On second thought, though, maybe that was what being made in the Divine Image was all about. Eighty percent of all creatures are insects…

— Robert Capon

“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”

— Philip K. Dick

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him…

— Mary Shelley

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept…

— Evelyn Waugh

“And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay.”

— The Postal Service

“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”

— Confucius

“Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and…

— Scott Westerfeld

“A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by…

— Charles Bukowski