Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. View quote
Mark Twain
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. View quote
Erich Fromm
Man is naturally a political animal. View quote
Aristotle
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. View quote
Groucho Marx
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. View quote
William Hazlitt
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. View quote
William Hazlitt
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. (Thomas Carlyle)
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. View quote
Adam Ferguson
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Men! The only animal in the world to fear. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. View quote
Anatole France
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. View quote
H. G. Wells
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (Rabindranath Tagore)
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. View quote
Charles Darwin
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. View quote
William Hazlitt
Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers? View quote
George Carlin