Human Animal Quotes - Page 5

• 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 earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Men, Vanity

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 225), 1977.

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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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• human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Animal, Adults

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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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 cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Animal, Race, People

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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• I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Animal, Humans

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

  Jeff Corwin

  Animal, Thinking, Dangerous

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

  Peter Gay

  Animal, Assumption, Humans

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• Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Sleep, Animal, Ideas

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• For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

  David Zindell

  Animal, Black, Faces

  "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

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• How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

  Valerie Martin

  Eye, Animal, Teeth

  Valerie Martin (2013). “The Great Divorce”, p.39, Vintage

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• The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

  Leon Kass

  Animal, Injustice, Social

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• Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. You’re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. You’re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet that’s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, we’re forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.

  James Balog

  Divorce, Night, Animal

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• The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Men, Pet

  "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe". Book by Jane Goodall, 2000.

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• Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

  Julius Lester

  Fear, Animal, Dresses

  Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Animal, Joy

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Exercise, Animal, Understanding

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

  Victor Salva

  Regret, Struggle, Animal

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• Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.

  Peter Shepherd

  Spiritual, Motivation, Creativity

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• The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Animal, Rejection

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• In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Animal, Race

  The Dairy World, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 1922.

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• I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?

  John Keats

  Writing, Animal, Thinking

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.38

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• Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Animal, Men, Hands

  George Horace Lorimer (2008). “Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Animal, Men, Talking

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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