Quotes about animal
animal men wisest-man
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group. Robert A. Heinlein
animal humanity
Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them. Tim Allen
animal kingdoms totems
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. Thomas Szasz
animal people world
In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
animal plant
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? Steven Wright
animal intellectual reason
An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do. Steven Spielberg
animal men air
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life... Robert Bridges
animal substance woods
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it. Robert Boyle
animal land diversity
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed. Tom Turner
animal support brain
For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us. Thomas Keating
animal helping consciousness
The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
animal elephants bizarre
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. Vin Diesel
animal soul ladders
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. Victoria Moran
animal parent young
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young. Victor Hugo
animal sea land
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
animal birds-wings knowing
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
animal world problem
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. Vernor Vinge
animal light talking
In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal. Richard Bach
animal turtles spirit
My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time. Rita Ora
animal years people
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people. Rita Mae Brown
animal class culture
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
animal men dignity
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. Richard Wagner
animal best-things
The best thing about animals is they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder
animal miracle development
The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo. Thomas Huxley
animal intelligent men
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.
animal shoes scientific-method
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.
animal expression feelings
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.
animal cities america
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes. Timothy Garton Ash
animal numbers kind
They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number. Samantha Shannon
animal america political
I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover. Rupert Everett
animal desire reason
Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason. Rumi
animal forests halfway
When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come. Tom Robbins
animal race purpose
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.