“When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.” HumansDifferencesAnimalDangerousLimitsMurderNotionCriticalAppetiteConsumerismGrossOverconsumptionHumans And Animals Author:Wendell Berry
“I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.” HumansReasonNaturalDifferencesAnimalPracticeBasesFleshCustomsFeedingEquity Author:George Cheyne
“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.” HumansMadeHandsFeltDifferencesHuman BeingsAnswersAnimalBrainCuriositySizeRespectable Book:Foundation's Edge Source: Foundation's Edge
“The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.” HumansBornDifferencesAnimalComedyConditionsCreaturesAmbitionTragedyStriveIntuitionFrustrationInstabilityEccentricityHuman LoveAnimal LifeTragedy And ComedyOddness Author:Christopher Fry
“More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.” IfsMenCertainDifferencesAnimalMoney Book:Everybody's Autobiography Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.” HumansKindUseSocialDifferencesAnimalMoralDevelopmentCivilizationDegreesConcernEntertainmentExperimentsRecognitionClothingsHumans And AnimalsMoral Development Author:Gary L. Francione
“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.” PeopleIfsStillsRealLightSeemsSidesDifferencesAnimalAliveBeing RealLeafsSilkAttendingIliad Author:Alice Oswald
“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.” MenLittlesReasonWholeAblePastCoursesCausesDifferencesAnimalEffectsPerceptionSensesPreparationPerceiveBeastMotivatedHumankindEvidentCause And EffectSurveysAnalogiesReciprocalFuture Life Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.” MenFirstsFactsUnderstandingDifferencesAnimalLatter Author:Theophrastus
“The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.” PeopleHumansHas BeensStatesLawDifferencesAnimalLibertyCenturyAuthorityUniqueGrantedGrantsAnarchyCrucialDominantRemindersFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyMagna Carta Author:Manu Joseph
“There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.” MenWayMadeHandsDifferencesAnimalDoubtSweetPicksBuiltSightConstitutionTablesFruitContraryTeethInnocentMeatNo DoubtAppropriateVegetablesHuntsPreyUnnaturalSlaughterClawsDead ManBerries Author:John Ray
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” MenLifeMotivationalDifferencesAnimalHistoryLaughingHuman NatureOughtLaughterPetMiscellaneousHumans And Animals Author:William Hazlitt
“There's a difference between mastering something physical and working with an animal. There's a spiritual component to working with a horse. You're dealing with the spirit of a live animal that thinks and makes decisions.” ThinkingSpiritualSpiritDifferencesDecisionAnimalHorseComponents Author:Buck Brannaman
“Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.” MenHumansIdeasLife IsDifferencesAnimalCompassionDogAdvantageCatPhilosophicalCrueltyConceptionVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsVegetarianismVeganismAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal EthicsHuman WillAnimal TestingHuman CrueltyMight Is Right Author:Sri Aurobindo
“As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws. Their activities - sabotaging, liberating animals - are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference.” CareLawDifferencesAnimalMovementActivityImpactLiberationIllegalLiberating Author:Jerry Vlasak
“I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.” WayFeelsMeanAblePassionDifferencesAnimalStrangeGratefulMaking A DifferenceShelterSo GratefulAnimal Shelter Author:Emmylou Harris
“Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.” HumansPainSufferingDiesDifferencesHuman BeingsPleasureAnimalKnowingDogCatWorthyInteractionDevotedWoePain And PleasureCat And DogAtmanHuman Beings And Animals Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.” FeelsDifferencesAnimalProductsHugeDietsRemoveVegetarianVegan Author:Pamela Anderson
“I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.” ChildrenImportantDoneHelpingCareAgeAbleEarthDifferencesAnimalIssuesMaking A DifferenceElderlyAffinity Author:Linda Blair
“What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.” HumansMadeGrowsEnjoyWaterDifferencesAnimalAirTreeConditionsPlanetsDependsHotPlantFasterAtmosphereGrassExtrasDescriptionWeedNutritionCarbonInsectsTemperatureCropsRobustAdverseCarbon DioxideHumans And AnimalsGreenerPestsHot AirAlgae Author:Paul Driessen