I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.
He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.
people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.
Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.
It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of hum...
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
