Animal Quote by William John Wills

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of…

— Alfred Korzybski

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than…

— Laurence Sterne

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the…

— Jeremy Collier

“The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible…

— Thomas Paine

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

— Talal Asad

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity…

— Jen Lancaster

“A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must have been…

— Thomas Nagel

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I…

— Carol Tavris