I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals.
– Margaret Atwood
Related Quotes:
- Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn’t have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. – Neetesh Dixit
- Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals – Vlgame
- Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals – Vlgame
- You can find three species at any defind area…. Stray animals, pet animals and SOCIAL animals… I wonder where HUMANS are..!!! – Mayank Sharma
- Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. – Betty White
- Somebody’s been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king’s niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though. – Patrick W Carr
- There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. – Alberto Manguel
- The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). – Christopher Hitchens
- Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands? – Zia Haider Rahman
- We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can. – Richard Myerscough
- Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence. – Amit Kalantri
- I wish to resist the temptation to kiss…By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love… – Super magic animals
- Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls. – Linda Bender
- Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals – Vlgame
- He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant
- People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive. – Frances Hardinge
- We don’t like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals. – Amit Kalantri
- Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals – Thiruman Archunan
- Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? – Wendy Doniger
- Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals – Akif Pirinci
- The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way. – Alan Hodgkin
- Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. – Charles Darwin
- The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. – Mahatma Gandhi
- Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test-¦consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. – Milan Kundera
- The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. – Ayn Rand
- Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent. – Billy Graham
- We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code. – Billy Graham
- When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror. – Peter Boghossian
- Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
- There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena – Friedrich Nietzsche
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
- An oligarchy does not require a good and moral citizenry but a Constitutional Republic does. If we lose our moral comp???, we lose our country. – R A Delmonico
- A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present. – Michael J Marx
- The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
- I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. – Margaret Atwood
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. – Margaret Atwood
- …yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. – Margaret Atwood