Alice Walker Quotes, Animal Quotes, Use Quotes

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

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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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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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

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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

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Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

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For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

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

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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

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I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.

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