Quotes About Animal

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

Whether meaningful or meaningless, the game of life is there to be played - and the animal in his animal way seems to know it and the cage is an offense to what his inner animal voice tells him is right and true.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

I mean it. Stop laughin'. How'm I gonna be able to surprise anybody with skunk smell all over me? It'll probably never come out of my leather vest or my hat. Dumb animal just ruined my chance of sneak—" He broke off, clamping his jaw tight.

Jamie sings like a squirrel.

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualised aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason man is considered a very dangerous animal.

But it is quite understandable that even the best of people are accessible to the idea of a state because, as I said, a state functions as something very real. You see, when the state claims to be like God's finger creating order out of chaos, it is true to a certain extend; it is monstrous, not human, but a people in its wholeness is not human. It is a big animal, and therefore it needs another monster to tame it.

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or fore being determined by the evolution that our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real.

He could hear noises of a pet inside the apartment, one too small to bark like a real dog.

Where is Wildene?" "Just step out the door and holler "Sooie! Sooie! She's a ho hog if ever I saw one. She'll come running.

He wipes his hand on his shirt. What? Did I drool on you?" A little." You're a wolf. You should be used to drool." That's low.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

The uncivilized behavior of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.

Roger and I would make our way down through the breathless olive groves, vibrating with the cries of the cicadas, and pad our way along the dusty road, Roger sneezing voluptuously as his great paws stirred up the dust, which went up his nose like snuff.

It had a tremendously wide head with golden eyes and a sulky, pouting mouth.

Lion's hurt his paw. It's really rather sore.

Man is a tool-using animal.

Kafka saw both himself and Red Peter as hybrids, as monstrous thinking devices mounted inexplicably on suffering animal bodies.