The Animals Quotes
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.
Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.
Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.
