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- If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- Man is the cruelest animal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
- My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
- All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), "Once There Was A War" 1943
- Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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