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45 quotesAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Animals
Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Humankind
Aristotle
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Fools and Foolishness
Honore De Balzac
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A merciful person is merciful to their animals.
Mercy
Bible
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You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.
Names
Deborah Boliver Boehm
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Death and Dying
Sir Thomas Browne
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Tools
Thomas Carlyle
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Committees and Meetings
John Le Carre
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Words
Malcolm De Chazal
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
Animals
Confucius
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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
Society
Frank DeFord
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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals
George Eliot
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Humankind
Anatole France
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Existence
Erich Fromm
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Identity
Erich Fromm
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Country
Mahatma Gandhi
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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Reason
Alexander Hamilton
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Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Integrity
William Hazlitt
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Animals
Eric Hoffer
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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
Agreement
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
Aid and Assistance
Prince Pyotr Kropotkin
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Competition
Charles Lamb
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Animals
D. H. Lawrence
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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Prison
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Every animal knows more than you do.
Knowledge
Native American Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun