William John Wills Quotes

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

William John Wills

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Same

• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Important
  • Heart

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Animal
  • Environmental

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness
  • Animal
  • Equality

• I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Animal
  • Literature

• Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Animal
  • Invest
  • Leap

• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Courage
  • Animal

• Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Good
  • Men
  • Night

• Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • Fear
  • Nice
  • Sad

• Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  

  Thomas Edward Brown
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Literature

• I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

  

  William John Wills
  • Animal
  • Ignorance
  • Sentiments