Animalistic Behavior Quotes

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

The mob begins to think and reason. Poor reptiles!

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

People are essentially red meat. They are.

I'm a real animal. I'm an animal.

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

All men are animals; princes are animals whom no one has tied up.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

I am a beast!

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.

Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we're going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.

The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.