Quotes About Instinct

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

The belly is the giver of genius.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.