Human Animal Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Animal, Class, Culture

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.79, Bantam

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• It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

  Rebecca West

  Animal, Survival, Humans

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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• As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Mean, Animal

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

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• For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Glory, Humans

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• The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.

  Andrew Neel

  Animal, People, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Animal, Soul

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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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• And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Thinking, Vivisection

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• From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fighting, Animal, Ancient

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

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Imagination

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