At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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