Martin Millar Quotes

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

Horses do sense things way before people.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

I have always thought that pandas, in evolutionary terms, are the most sophisticated animals in the world. They cannot look after themselves; they are useless at reproducing. But to compensate, they have managed to persuade the most advanced creatures on the planet - human beings - to care for their every need.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.