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Quotes About Animalistic

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
~ Joseph Goebbels
The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
Sometimes, Sevastyan thought his leopard, whom he affectionally called Shturm, meaning assault, would end his life by literally ripping him open and climbing out of him rather than shifting the normal way they exchanged forms.
~ Christine Feehan
Laughter can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound,and also the most sinister and animalistic one.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
~ Christopher Paolini
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
~ Victor Hugo
No le sorprendió, tampoco, sentir una doble perforacIón en la garganta al echar la cabeza atrás: su preciosa pantera sólo estaba un poco domesticada en realidad, y necesitaba aprender algunas cosas básicas sobre la etiqueta de las citas, por ejemplo, que uno besa antes de morder.
~ L.J. Smith
You don't get it. I am one runaway son of a bitch! I am an animal! I want to eat everything! I want to get drunk every single night! I want to screw every woman there is! We are all wild animals. But we must learn to use our minds. We must learn to control the bestial and sensual sides of ourselves!
~ lalanne jack
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals.
~ Oscar Wilde
He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life.
~ Jack London
Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him
~ Jack London
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
~ William Morris
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's the Whoosh, the visceral reaction that comes up from the feet like a wave washing over your body. I speak of it as our first consciousness, and I divide it into three reactions—fight, flight, or fix.
~ Terrence Real
There were fearful consequences to the open tolerance of brutality: the depravity would "spread like an epidemic." Surprisingly quickly the like-minded and the deviant personalities come together, as is the case in Poland, in order to give full vent to their animalistic and pathological instincts. Eventually, Blaskowitz said, "only the brutal will rule.
~ Nicholson Baker
Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I didn't know how it had happened. Maybe we'd forgotten the rules of normal society. Maybe we'd finally given ourselves over to the wildness of the island. Or maybe we'd been savage our wholes lives, rash and animalistic in the inside, and never known it till now.
~ Chandra Prasad
So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.
~ James Joyce
There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool, howls at the moon, gives or gets a black eye.
~ Jonathan Miles
He was stubborn as a mule, clever as a monkey, and nimble as a hare.
~ Cornelia Funke
Isn't love the most horrible thing! I think it's just horrible. it just does one in, and turns one into a sort of howling animal.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
~ D.H. Lawrence
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn't work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.
~ H.E. Davey
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it's a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that's just the basic gist of it... The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage - you're on your way.
~ Samoa Joe