Animal Quotes

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.'

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.