If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

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.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

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.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

You are an... animal? A talking animal?" Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

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