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There's nothing funnier than the human animal. -- Walt Disney
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. -- Leon Kass
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. -- H. Allen Smith
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. -- George Bernard Shaw
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. -- Joni Mitchell
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. -- Peter Gay
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. -- Dag Hammarskjold
You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies. -- Lucian Freud
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. -- Cyril Connolly
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. -- Luigi Pirandello
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. -- Harry S. Truman
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. -- Dorothea Lange
I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal. -- Victor Salva
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The human is the only guilty animal. -- John Steinbeck
A human being is a naturally political [animal]. -- Aristotle
Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human. -- Brian Jacques
It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes. -- Rebecca West
The human animal only sees what it wants to see. -- Marcia Muller
Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal. -- Jane Goodall
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity. -- Terence McKenna
One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights. -- Andrew Linzey
Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception. -- Justin Torres
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. -- Martin Heidegger
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. -- Rita Mae Brown
The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human. -- Steven Magee
After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster. -- Galen
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be. -- Rudolf Virchow
I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights. -- Rod Coronado
The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment. -- Laura Schlessinger
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. -- Virginia Woolf
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. -- Brad Meltzer
I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human. -- Rachael Ray
The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel. -- Jacob Bronowski
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal. -- Joaquin Phoenix
You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal. -- Tippi Hedren
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. -- Saint Basil
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I"¦am"¦a man! -- Joseph Merrick
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. -- Daryl Hannah
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. -- Randall Jarrell
No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein. -- T. Colin Campbell
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories. -- Jim Davis
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. -- Edward Bond
There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life. -- Harold Klemp
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human -- Edward Bond
Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this? -- Larry Gonick
Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again. -- Studs Terkel
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior. -- Lynne Tillman
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. -- Gary L. Francione
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. -- Graham Greene
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. -- Steve Toltz
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either. -- Julius Lester
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. -- Hannibal
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. -- Carl Jung
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. -- Matt Ridley
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. -- Thomas Szasz
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. -- J. J. Abrams
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms. -- Catherine Wilson
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. -- William Godwin
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. -- Nelson Mandela
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal. -- Jeff Corwin
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. -- Thomas Szasz
No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body. -- Martha Graham
He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough. -- Rhyannon Byrd
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal. -- Carroll Shelby
You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human. -- Robert Winston
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. -- H. L. Mencken
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. -- Elias Canetti
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. -- Tennessee Williams
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. -- Robert Breault
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence. -- Bryan Kest
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. -- Rita Mae Brown
Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages. -- Harold Klemp
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. -- George Herbert Mead
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. -- Alan Ayckbourn
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. -- Bill Mollison
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. -- George Herbert Mead
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. -- Abraham Lincoln
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. -- George Orwell
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. -- Eric Hoffer
Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human. -- Jostein Gaarder
I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter. -- Warren Buffett
I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy. -- Emo Philips
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. -- Peter Singer
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction. -- Dalai Lama
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. -- Kingsley Amis
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "?power' over other species. -- Ian Somerhalder
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined. -- Hilary Kornblith
Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee? -- John Green
I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other. -- Emily Bronte
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. -- Paul Gauguin
It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost. -- T. Thorn Coyle
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. -- Alan Keyes
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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. -- Tom Stoppard
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. -- Andre Comte-Sponville
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. -- Edward Thorndike
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
Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul. -- Peter Adamson
The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human. -- Carleton S. Coon
<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so. -- Maggie Shayne
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind. -- Albert Einstein
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion. -- Jane Goodall
Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet. -- Paul Shepard
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Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. -- Rachel Carson
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others"?both human and animal. -- Gregory Colbert
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. -- Victor Hugo
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world." -- Victor Hugo
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. -- Phyllis McGinley

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