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“The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.”

Humans Looks Animal Pornography Prehistoric

“Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?”

People Ifs Thinking Men Love Humans Animal Laughing Cat Bounds

Book:Cancer Ward: A Novel

Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel

“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”

Men Years Humans Wells I Can Three Animal Effort Human Nature Genius Thousand Hundred Years Ago Extraordinary Customs Vegetables Fifteen Thousand Years Wiser Vary

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.”

Men Humans Looks Soul Nature Animal Rocks He Man Angel Down And Plant Beast Vegetables Lenses Human Soul Minerals Swarms Ascending

Author:C. A. Bartol

“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.”

“While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.”

“I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.”

Thinking Humans Animal

Author:Rachael Ray

“The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.”

Humans God Human Beings Animal Vocation

Author:Saint Basil

“It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.”

“Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.”

Ifs Needs Humans Long Body Spirit Change Animal Tree Source Perspective Eternal Long Time Standing Connected Accepted Exception Living Things Long Time Ago Physical Body

Author:Esther Hicks

“There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.”

Ifs World Humans I Can Today Human Beings Animal Existence Clear Plant Species Poison Finishing Disappearance Density

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.”

World Humans Long Enough Animal Protection Pet Protected Organisms Laboratory Ageing Zoos

Author:S. Jay Olshansky

“As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.”

Needs Humans Care Humanity Social Wealth Human Beings Animal Responsibility Compassion Concern Satisfaction Inner Strength Caring For Others Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.”

Humans Body Faces Found Animal Kings Flesh Vegetarian Vegan Yards Requirements Human Body Burgers Burger King

Author:Michael Klaper

“For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.”

Humans Animal Activity Glory Cognitive Human Animal

Author:Terence McKenna

“I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.”

Knows Should Humans Sides Animal Example Perception Mirrors Display Handsome Symmetry Perception Of Beauty

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.”

“There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' The Bible shows the human person as his brother's keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.”

“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”

Ifs World Humans Seems Animal This World Fit Notion Metaphor Supposed To Be Men Women Prevailing

Author:Theodora

“I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.”

“When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.”

“I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids...they became animal rights activists.”

Humans Kind Kids Hurt Human Beings Animal Saws Rights Couple Affected Activist Animal Rights Animal Rights Activists

Author:Sean Astin

“What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.”

Humans Enough Loses Animal Gone Dangerous Conscience Ideology Beast Humanness

Author:Ali Sina

“A bear and a deer are both wild animals. We allow the deer to roam in our backyard but we do not give the same right to the bear. It is because the bear is dangerous. Neither the bear nor the deer have rights. We humans give them rights. Taking in account our own security, we give to some animals some rights and deny the same to other animals.”

Giving Humans Animal Rights Security Dangerous Bears Accounts Deny Deer Backyards Wild Animal

Author:Ali Sina

“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?”

Men Humans May Stills Sometimes Earth Asks Animal Poor Wonder Watches Late Flight Aviation Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.”

Humans Body Animal Philosophical Organisms Human Body

Author:Martin Heidegger

“As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.”

Knows Needs Should Humans Made Helping Pain Suffering Animal Blood Limits Deserve Entertainment Flesh Helping Others Cruelty Iron Immense Slaughter Flesh And Blood Human Cruelty

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" The thing is, everyone cheered after the animals part, but I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know there was a second part to the question.”

People Knows Feels Humans Said Humor Funny Human Beings Animal Heavy Singers Tonight Concerts Metals Heavy Metal

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.”

Way Humans Feelings Past Life Is Certain Imagination Human Beings Loss Ability Animal Quality Terror Disaster Indifference Streams Accurate Intuitive Rabbits Callousness

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.”

Humans Animal Common Existence Known Fishes Seeking Boundaries Rejoice Laboratory Tanks Kinship

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“In nature this animal would have nothing to do with you. "Natural horsemanship" is just words. It's not natural at all. There's an abundance of trust that must be developed for you. Imagine if humans were that pliable.”

Ifs Humans Natural Animal Imagine Abundance Horsemanship

Author:Buck Brannaman

“Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.”

Humans Animal Levels Consciousness Theory Philosopher Allowing Physicist

Author:Michio Kaku

“Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.”

People Trying Humans Long Book Stories Universe Animal Special Information Fit Long Time Smart Unusual Extinction Paradigm Smart People Very Smart New Information

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea of a rational man that was specially created went out the window when Darwin showed that we evolved from animal ancestors, that we have instincts, much as do animals, and that our instincts are very important. It was a much more sophisticated, nuanced, and rich view of the human mind.”

Men Mind Humans Important Ideas Different Animal Views Rich Window Instinct Rational Human Mind Ancestor Sophisticated

Author:Eric Kandel

“Through the years I've learned to gain the trust of humans. I'm really good at gaining the trust of animals and I have developed the same ability with humans. I don't make people feel wrong, I just make people aware. I have learned to make people laugh.”

People Feels Years Humans Ability Animal Laughing Gains I've Learned I Have Learned Making People Laugh Through The Years

Author:Cesar Millan

“Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.”

Needs Humans Desire Social Human Beings Animal Driven Meaningful Romantic Relationship

Author:Matthew Hussey

“I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in the animal kingdom. No dinner, no movie - just a quick sniff, 'Alright, let's go.'”

Thinking Humans Looks Humor Funny Animal Dating Dinner Kingdoms Mates Smarter Alright Animal Kingdom

Author:Adam Ferrara

“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.”

Humans Happens Life Is Easy Animal Too Much Development Eating Survival Capacity Incredibles Complicated Human Life Comparison Gifted Replication Nothing Is Easy

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.”

Humans Can Do Animal Tough

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“It seems to me perfectly possible to act humanely towards other beings, whether humans or animals or plants. One simply has to learn how to behave. To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."”

Humans Seems Humanity Animal Plant Notion Behave

Author:Talal Asad

“We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we can live. Therefore, we have to adapt to these different environments and we cannot predict, in a generic way, in which type of world we are going to live (cold as the North Pole or hot as Congo).”

World Way Humans Mean Two Different Human Beings Animal Environment Type Cold Hot Niche Congo Ecological Generic North Pole Different Environments

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“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.”

Humans Children Past Mother Animal Christianity Catholic Human Experience Icons Mother And Child Motifs

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.”

Way Humans Earth Together Water Community Loses Human Beings Forget Animal Levels Planets Deeper Stillness Gravity Living On Disconnected

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.”

Way Humans Long Different Form Animal Creatures Evidence Intelligent Superiors Arrogance Quantity Compelling Pretense Bouquets

Book:Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos

Source: Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos

“We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Stills Memories Human Beings Forget Animal Cost Ancient Deny

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.”

Humans Given Imagination Animal Intellect Alcohol Beer Superiority Stimulus Funny Beer

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.”

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”

Source: All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet

“And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.”

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