Humans And Animals Quotes

“If surviving and passing on one’s genes is the whole point, then animals do it much better. And they do it without cribbing. We humans, however, find it difficult to even survive. We crib a lot. We are bogged down by our thoughts.”
― Abhaidev, The Meaninglessness of Meaning

“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.”
― Mischa Temaul

“He believed that people should emulate whales. He said that people had grown as small and crafty as rats , and that the days of taking slow, huge, beautiful strides had vanished, The age of giants was over.”
― Un-su Kim, The Plotters

“And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

“When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Su mundo de humanos standard: Una burbuja donde nada sino lo humano es oído o visto realmente, donde nada más que lo humano importa y lo demás es paisaje, mercancía o comida.”
― Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

“Émilie partit faire un tour
avec sa meilleure amie Vanessa dans les bois.
En pleine discussion entre filles, Émilie ne
prêta aucune attention au danger qu’elle
courait dans cette zone déserte jusqu’au
moment où elle poussa un cri époustouflant
ne laissant aucun de ses camarades
indifférent: un scorpion l'avait piqué!”
― Ikrame Selkani, Il était une fois Émilie…

“But now, strange as it seems, a peasant's small, scrawny. light brown nag is harnessed to such a large cart, one of those horses he's seen it often that sometimes strain to pull some huge load of firewood or hay. Especially if the cart has gotten stuck in the mud or a rut. The peasants always whip the horse so terribly, so very painfully, sometimes even across its muzzle and eyes, and he would always feel so sorry, so very sorry to witness it that he would feel like crying, and his mother would always lead him away from the window. Now things are getting extremely boisterous: some very large and extremely drunken peasants in red and blue shirts, their heavy coats slung over their shoulders. come out of the tavern shouting, singing. and playing balalaikas. “Git in. everyone git in!" shouts one peasant, a young lad with a thick neck and a fleshy face, red as a beet, “I'll take ya all. Git in!" But there is a burst of laughter and shouting:

“That ol’ nag ain't good for nothin'!"

“Hey, Mikolka, you must be outta yer head to hitch that ol' mare to yer cart!"

“That poor ol' horse must be twenty if she's a day, lads!"

“Git in, I'll take ya all!" Mikolka shouts again,jumping in first, taking hold of the reins, and standing up straight in the front of the cart. “Matvei went off with the bay," he cries from the cart, “and as for this ol' mare here, lads, she's only breakin' my heart: I don't give a damn ifit kills ’er; she ain't worth her salt. Git in, I tell ya! I'll make 'er gallop! She’ll gallop, all right!" And he takes the whip in his hand, getting ready to thrash the horse with delight.

"What the hell, git in!" laugh several people in the crowd. "You heard 'im, she'll gallop!"

“I bet she ain't galloped in ten years!"

"She will now!"

“Don't pity 'er, lads; everyone, bring yer whips, git ready!" "That's it! Thrash 'er!" They all clamber into Mikolka's cart with guffaws and wisecracks. There are six lads and room for more. They take along a peasant woman, fat and ruddy. She's wearing red calico, a headdress trimmed with beads, and fur slippers; she‘s cracking nuts and cackling. The crowd’s also laughing; as a matter of fact, how could one keep from laughing at the idea of a broken down old mare about to gallop, trying to pull such a heavy load! Two lads in the cart grab their whips to help Mikolka. The shout rings out: “Pull!" The mare strains with all her might, but not only can’t she gallop, she can barely take a step forward; she merely scrapes her hooves, grunts, and cowers from the blows of the three whips raining down on her like hail. Laughter redoubles in the cart and among the crowd, but Mikolka grows angry and in his rage strikes the little mare with more blows, as if he really thinks she’ll be able to gallop. “Take me along, too, lads!" shouts someone from the crowd who’s gotten a taste of the fun.

“Git in! Everyone, git inl" cries Mikolka. “She'll take everyone. I‘ll flog 'er!" And he whips her and whips her again; in his frenzy, he no longer knows what he’s doing.

“Papa, papa," the boy cries to his father. “Papa, what are they doing? Papa, they‘re beating the poor horse!"

“Let's go, let's go!" his father says. “They’re drunk, misbehaving, those fools: let’s go. Don't look!" He tries to lead his son away. but the boy breaks from his father‘s arms; beside himself, he runs toward the horse. But the poor horse is on her last legs. Gasping for breath, she stops, and then tries to pull again, about to drop.

“Beat 'er to death!" cries Mikolka. ”That's what it's come to. I‘ll flog ‘er!"

“Aren't you a Christian. you devil?" shouts one old man from the crowd.

“Just imagine, asking an ol' horse like that to pull such a heavy load,” adds another.

“You‘ll do 'er in!" shouts a third.

“Leave me alone! She’s mine! I can do what I want with 'er! Git in, all of ya! Everyone git in I'm gonna make 'er gallop!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you want to know the truth, animals never betray anyone. Only people betray.”
― Fazil Iskander, Sandro of Chegem

“The Goal of life is to serve others.. It may be human, animal or Nature...!”
― Kedar dhepe

“The average lifespan of the common octopus is less than a year. Even the big ones don't live any longer than five, which means that all of them die right after their kids are born. The don't pass a single thing on to the next generation- no memories, no culture. In a way, shouldn't humans feel lucky?”
― Carlie Sorosiak, Wild Blue Wonder

“No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.”
― Mischa Temaul

“and much of what she came to understand was that humans were domestic animals like dogs and cats. They responded poorly to threats and well to a gentle building of trust.”
― James S. A. Corey

“It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Handy, humans, Rowl thought. Clumsy, slow, and not always terribly bright, but they were very very strong, through sheer, inarguable mass. He now saw his father's wisdom in desiring to keep a few of them around the home tunnels. They could manage annoying problems that might prove awkward and time-consuming for cats.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Tomorrow, a virus can come up and start killing only the animals! Or an asteroid can threaten all the lives on earth! Earth needs humans, no doubt, because only the humans have the capacity to prevent some future natural or cosmic disasters! But what kind of humans? Earth needs eco-friendly humans, not stupid greedy capitalists!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There appears to be a touch of free-will in angels as in demons — same as humans and animals.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“All we are is a species, like millions of others. I think it's dangerous to think otherwise.”
― Gary Larson

“I see people for the first time, I smell them for the first time, I am close to them for the first time. I hear the heavy thumping of human hearts. The sour scent of sweat fills the cellar.

Noisy, shapless, with legs that bend, with stiffly mounted round heads, they emit mumbling, hissing sounds.”
― Andrzej Zaniewski, Rat

“Humans and animals accurately understand common sense without needing to apply it.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Humans are an extension of animals. Animal characteristics, barbarism, primitiveness, unethical behaviour, and all evil are also present in humans. Humans have not yet become human; the traces of the animal remain, and it will not be possible to create a beautiful world unless we completely abandon the animal.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan