Aristotle Quotes, Men Quotes, Animal Quotes

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Animal Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Rights Quotes

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Animal Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes

It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

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Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Dog Quotes , Animal Quotes

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Courage Quotes , Animal Quotes

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Animal Quotes , Culture Quotes

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Horse Quotes , Animal Quotes

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes , Animal Quotes

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Animal Quotes , Self Quotes

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Karma Quotes , Animal Quotes

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Passion Quotes , Animal Quotes

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Would Be Quotes

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Animal Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dog Quotes , Animal Quotes

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Nature Quotes , Animal Quotes

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Animal Quotes , Pet Quotes

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Love Quotes , Animal Quotes