“ Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awaken. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ”
- Morris West- Copy
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“ We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ We treat our dogs as if they were 'almost human': that is why they really become 'almost human' in the end. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. ”
- Norman McLaren- Copy
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“ The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. ”
- James Randi- Copy
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“ If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ”
- Morris West- Copy
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“ Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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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. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. ”
- Allan Beck- Copy
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“ It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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“ Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
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“ I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them. ”
- Jennie Garth- Copy
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“ Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ On the big issues, Joan and I are amazingly in tune, but on the creature-comfort level, we're incompatible. ”
- Robert Parker- Copy
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