Quotes about Animal

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee?

one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone…animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual…

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

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.