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Man is a clever animal who
behaves like an imbecile.
To insult someone we call him "bestial."
For deliberate cruelty and nature,
"human" might be the greater insult.
Dogs come when they're
called; cats take a message
and get back to you later.
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.
I have been studying the traits and
dispositions of the "lower animals"
(so called) and contrasting them
with the traits and dispositions of man.
I find the result humiliating to me.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to
us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
Aerodynamically, the bumble
bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the
bumble bee doesn't know it
so it goes on flying anyway.
It often happens that a man is
more humanely related to a cat or
dog than to any human being.
Single-mindedness is all very well in
cows or baboons; in an animal claiming
to belong to the same species as
Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
The greatness of a nation and its
moral progress can be judged by
the way its animals are treated