Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

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.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

Man is by nature a political animal.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.