We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

I might do cartoonish sexual jokes, but it's my way of saying what's going on in the world. How people are animals, really.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

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

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

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