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  • We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Mean Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Animal Quotes , Survival Quotes
  • What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Flower Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Pain Quotes , Animal Quotes