H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Animal Quotes

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dog Quotes , Animal Quotes

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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Every animal loves itself.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Animal Quotes , People Quotes

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Animal Quotes

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Animal Quotes , Night Quotes

All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!

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Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Pain Quotes , Animal Quotes

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cat Quotes , Animal Quotes

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Pain Quotes , Animal Quotes

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Rights Quotes

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Animal Quotes , Hands Quotes

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Animal Quotes , Acting Quotes

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heart Quotes , Animal Quotes

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Animal Quotes , Perception Quotes

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

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Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Summer Quotes , Animal Quotes

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Firsts Quotes