“A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.” ThinkingArtistAnimalHip HopSymbolsHipsHopsFurRegisterStatus SymbolHip Hop Artist Author:Tommy Lee
“What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.” MenFirstsHumansLanguageBornAnimalDevelopmentCapacityMereSymbolsHumankindSignalsDistinguishedSymbolicInseparableHuman Capacity Book:About Looking Source: About Looking
“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.” PeopleHumansDoeFormSocialWealthHuman BeingsAnimalNumbersStruggleOne ThingPaperClothesLowsSymbolsTitlesHumankindPlatesLicenseBadgesPrecedenceStand For SomethingLicense Plate Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.” MenSpeakEnjoySoundWaterAnimalExampleBearsRiversSightEnvironmentalIncludingFishesSymbolsDependentUnitsInsectsEcologicalDeerOttersElk Author:William O. Douglas
“Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.” BelieveAnimalResponsibilityHorseAgreeWestCongressSymbolsControlledProtectedWild HorsesAmerican West Author:Jon Porter
“The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".” MenMindHumansRealFormCertainGivenProcessUnderstandingAnimalIssuesMankindGoes OnConceptsDefinitionsRationalSymbolsDataCharacteristicsUnconsciousHuman MindConceptionTraitsSpontaneousIrrelevantAbstractionRecognizingConfiguration Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.” MenStillsFactsAnimalSymbolsFlagsHerds Author:Albert Einstein