Animals

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep set, and some moderate, and those which are deep set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

Humans are amphibians half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals and the most silly.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?