Animal Quotes - Page 44

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

For the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live.

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

It's a weird sound [ "Animals"] inspired by a hip hop drum loop. I listen to a lot of hip hop tracks and it's not used quite often in House currently. I chopped up the loop and edited it so you wouldn't recognize the original.

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.