Top 1200 Humans And Animals Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

I think I have a karmic connection with animals. They add so much value to my life and I feel comfortable with them over humans.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.

Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

Humans are particularly interesting; our culture is incredible, there's no doubt about that. In many respects, no other species matches ours. But in quite a few respects, they do, and that can help us, perhaps, to better understand our own culture. We look at the ways humans are similar to other animals, and at the ways they differ, rather than just saying, "We have culture and you don't."

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

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

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.

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.

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

If you love animals and you care for them... don't wear them, because they have feelings and personalities just like humans do.

If we accept ourselves as animals, and have empathy and tolerance, compassion to others, understand that humans are territorial, aggressive and have gender aspects, then we can change things.

One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

We know we cannot defend to be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.