Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

H. Allen Smith
H. Allen Smith

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

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.

Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Newkirk

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.