The Animals Quotes

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

The dog is the god of frolic.

All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.