The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.
If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
Animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see and families to care for. . . just like you and me.
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
Palestinians caged up like animals.
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.
Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite. . . And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.