Mark Twain Quotes, Science Quotes, Animal Quotes

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Smart Quotes , Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Pride Quotes , Animal Quotes

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Christian Quotes , Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

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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.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Animal Quotes , Sea Quotes

Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.

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Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Animal Quotes , Suffering Quotes

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Animal Quotes , Doe Quotes