Animal

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

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.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

It is humankind’s duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.