Animal Comparison 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.

A revolting, fat, beast.

The Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because Negroes have little that is essentially human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals …

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

There is another very specific quality which distinguishes them [man from animals], and which will admit of no dispute. This is the faculty of self-improvement, which, by the help of circumstances, gradually develops all the rest of our faculties, and is inherent in the species as in the individual: whereas a brute is, at the end of a few months, all he will ever be during his whole life, and his species, at the end of a thousand years, exactly what it was the first year of that thousand.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

[Describing his opponent:] ... a cross between a hyena and a mongrel ... begotten in a graveyard at midnight, suckled by a sow and educated by a fool.

Calling the New York State Legislature “a circus” is inappropriate. Circus animals are very intelligent.

The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being.

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

We're not the prettiest bunch of animals in the world.

How like us is that filthy beast the ape.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.