The Whiteman lords it over us in all walks of life not because he happens to be white but because he is better organized than we are, that is his secret.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent but the ones most adaptable to change.

My favorite animal is the mule. He has more sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating — and when to stop working.

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth."

I place the organization ahead of individuals. I think two ordinary men are better than one genius. I always choose teamwork rather than individual efforts.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh — not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.

Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, buffaloes, elephants and me.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Dogs are better than people.