Human Animal – Quotes

The idea of death,

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity – designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man. Ernest Becker

We march up, moody

We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers – we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals. Erich Maria Remarque

Dogs are better than

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson

The earth is not

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in … Read more

I many times encountered

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. Dorothea Lange

If you don’t have

If you don’t have imagination, you stop being human; animals don’t have imagination; Alzheimer’s is the death of imagination. Devdutt Pattanaik

…In little more than

…In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another…. We describe these killings as men behaving like animals, but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be … Read more