Quotes of: Human-animal Keyword

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Peter Singer

Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals

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When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposa...

Phillip Wollen

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Peter Gay

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Daryl Hannah

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Heartbreak House

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

Alan Greenspan

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

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Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

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We poetically construct our identity as human beings, together with our values, largely through reciprocal relationships with animals. They provide us with essential points of reference, as well as illustrations of the qualities that we may choose to...

The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia Of Animals In World Myth, Legend, And Literature

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

The White Tiger

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Lucian Freud

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.

Mark Roth

The only difference between a human and animal is that a Human can worship God but Animal can't. Fulfill the purpose for which actually you have taken birth.

Love

Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with the original motivation, which in the case of an...

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will d better to seek out the company of other animals. A zoo is a better wi...

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural suffering that humans inflict on the animals that we freely h...

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

Many people who live with animals have noticed that their cat or dog becomes solicitous of them when they are feeling unwell. A cat who is normally aloof may come sit in the sick person's lap; a normally rambunctious dog may tone himself down when hi...

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals