HUMANITY,
COMPARED WITH ANIMALS
This is the quality peculiar to man, wherein he differs from other animals, that he alone is endowed with perception to distinguish right from wrong, justice from injustice.
Aristotle
Man with all his noble qualities … still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is dangerous to make man see how like he is to animals without keeping his greatness in view. It is dangerous also to show him his greatness and not his baseness; and still more to leave him ignorant of both. But it is most profitable to show him both.
Blaise Pascal
Brutes never meet in bloody fray,
Nor cut each other’s throats for pay.
Jonathan Swift