Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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 can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.