Benjamin Rush Quotes

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

Every man has a wild animal in him.

We're animals. We're violent.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

People are animals, man.

Once you cross that social conditioning threshold that holds us back, we all become animals. Instantly.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.

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

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.