“Quentin Tarantino on media criticisms of animal exploitation in his movies.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
“I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through.”
This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts.
Ch III : The Tool
Terre des Hommes (1939)
"Theorem I: Personal Identity, or Identical Self", Chapter 5, pp. 69–70
Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
“Death is forever when you're an animal.”
Raised by Wolves, season 1, episode 4. Character Campion.
Sec. 314
The Gay Science (1882)
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 59
Turkish Wikipedia
https://quotestats.com/topic/attila-hun-quotes/
“The only difference between a human and an animal is in having inspiration.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: Walden (1854)
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3 "Human Nature and Character
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
1780s
Variant: Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
Source: The Sunflower
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”
As quoted in W.T.F.? : (What Is Wrong With Tom Faerie?) (2006) by H. M. Leathem
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“You…" The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.”
Source: The Lost Hero
Source: Reforming a Rake
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.
“anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.”
Source: Rusty String Quartet
“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“Military men are "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.”
Kissinger has denied saying it.
The only evidence that Kissinger ever said this was a claim in the book, The Final Days, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in chapter 14 (p.194 in the 1995 paperback edition). Woodward & Bernstein claimed that one of Kissinger's political foes, Alexander Haig, had told someone unnamed, that he (Haig) had heard Kissinger say it. That's triple hearsay, made even weaker by the fact that one of the parties is anonymous. Kissinger has denied ever saying it, and it was never substantiated by Haig, nor by anyone of known identity who claimed to have heard it. As Kirkus Reviews noted about the whole book, "none of it is substantiated in any assessable way."
In fact, the quote is not even very plausible, on its face. Kissinger served with distinction in the U.S. Army during WWII, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He has always been very respectful of other servicemen and their sacrifices. For him to have said such a thing would have been wildly out of character. In fact, the awkward phrasing doesn't even sound like Kissinger, whose English prose is consistently measured and careful, despite his heavy accent, even when he speaks extemporaneously.
Misattributed
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.
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Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), as quoted in Milan Kundera (2003) by Harold Bloom, [//books.google.it/books?id=SXDojRJFMPIC&pg=PA91 p. 91]
Context: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
“Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.”
Source: The Works Of Alexander Hamilton
“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”
Source: Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”
Source: The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).
Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
Source: The Long Walk
Source: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
Variant: All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.”
Source: The Tao of Pooh
Source: Islands in the Stream
“It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Seven.
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
Source: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
