The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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, an animal that makes bargains.
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.