About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.

Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!

Self interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self surrender.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for