“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.” ChildrenMadeUsedIndividualSexInterestAnimalMissingExampleEvolutionBenefitsSafetyTablesSpeciesExcuseMannersCheatingPairsUsualGardeningStableBehaviourIncapableMonkeysSustainingDarwinismTable MannersShrewsPhilanderer Author:A. A. Gill
“A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.” SpiritCertainAnimalEnemySafetyIllStrikesSpiteExcessCautionDeliberateGood HumorAnimal Spirits Author:William Hazlitt
“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.” MenLongRunningActionLeftGrowthAnimalSafetyOccupationWeed Book:Six Months in Italy Source: Six Months in Italy
“Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.” GivingLittlesHas BeensSometimesAnimalSafetyFoldsCrushedMagnitudeSubtletyFormidableInsignificanceAntagonist Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables themselves have anything wrong with them; it's that they're contaminated with animal manure. One of the rationales for a single food safety agency is that you can't separate animals from vegetables.” WantKindAnimalSafetyCongressAgencyVegetablesManureFdaRationaleFood Safety Author:Marion Nestle
“Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.” PeopleShouldHumansAnimalMinesDrugConcernSafetyDataHumans And Animals Author:Terence McKenna