Charles Dickens Quotes

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Dogs are nicer than people.

Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.