A Quote by Anna Quindlen

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
American - Journalist
Born: July 8, 1953

She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Anna Quindlen

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

Carl Sagan

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

Arthur Mitchell

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

Wendell Berry

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Andy Dunn

I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.

Eckhart Tolle

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.

Eric Corley

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

David Levithan

Veganism can resurrect Eden and create heaven on Earth. We can have a place where humans view animals in awe, and animals view humans with a curious aloofness.

Gary Yourofsky

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Peter Singer

We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike any other animal on earth. Our distinctiveness separates us and makes it easy to forget where we came from. Perhaps dogs help us remember the depth of our roots, reminding us—the animals at the other end of the leash—that we may be special, but we are not alone. No wonder we call them our best friends.

Patricia McConnell

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

Wil Wheaton

When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings.

Philip Wollen

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Betty White

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

Gary Steiner

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