Human Animal Quotes - Page 4

• If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Animal, Protection

  "Religion's regressive hold on animal rights issues" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2010.

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• ... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

  Virginia Woolf

  Animal, Doubt, Capacity

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4383, Delphi Classics

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• The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.73, Penguin

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• Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Christian, Animal, Saint

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• but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Children, Ignorance, Animal

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.83, Vintage

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• Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

  Steve Toltz

  Animal, Thinking, Water

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.369, Spiegel & Grau

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• The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Animal, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• ...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

  Desmond Morris

  Animal, Men, Acting

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• 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.

  Cyril Connolly

  Animal, Thinking, Literature

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• Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  Henry Spira

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  Gary Yourofsky

  Live Life, Thinking, Animal

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• We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Animal, Soldier, March

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.89, Infobase Publishing

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• The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Book, Ignorance, Animal

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.477, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Vogue, September 1, 1989.

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• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

  Ernest Becker

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Believe, Gay, Animal

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• Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Animal, Men, Selfishness

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.

  Robert L. Geddes

  Inspiration, Animal, Space

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• You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.

  Asger Jorn

  Mean, Fighting, Animal

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.

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• The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

  Marcia Muller

  Animal, Want, Humans

  Marcia Muller (2011). “Beyond the Grave”, p.216, Speaking Volumes

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• The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.

  Marie de Gournay

  Cat, Animal, Males

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• The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Struggle, Animal, Effort

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

  Studs Terkel

  Sleep, Animal, Wake Up

  Studs Terkel (2013). “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do”, p.637, The New Press

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• The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Hatred, Aim Of Education

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