Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
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.
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.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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.