The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is by nature a political animal.
We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
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.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
I'm not a political animal, I'm a curious animal.
I'm not a politician or political animal.