Man and animals · Skopia

Quotes

79

Play · Tragic play · Greek theater

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

441 BC

★ 9.5

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:28

1405 BC

★ 6.2

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Idea of Progress · 1920

★ 5.9

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Movies

1

Au Hasard Balthazar

1966★ 7.8