Animals Quotes

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivi...

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it emb...

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suf...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must b...

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...

If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are r...

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal pr...

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals ...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusement...

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or r...

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the fee...

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

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidentl...

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...

Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls""Of course animals have souls, where did she get that...

...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its d...

Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface o...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distingui...

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounter...

These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same l...

New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. Yo...

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I mysel...

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

I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just ...

No animal admires another animal.

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to ...

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable...

Even if we ourselves are not personally scandalized by the notion of other animals as close relative...

Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces.

animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and...

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which...

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only...

Happiness is a warm puppy.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to ...

Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. ...

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Ea...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and ...

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

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

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depra...

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even i...

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is w...

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter o...

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter o...

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditatio...

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

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

Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few...

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other delicio...

The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, righ...

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched ...

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ...

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicativ...

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it te...

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of...

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invent...

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, b...

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and cou...

My favorite animal is steak.

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...

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

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test t...

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, rang...

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks ...

[T]he term 'nonhuman' grates on me, since it lumps millions of species together by an absence, as if...

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

Man is the cruelest animal.

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human b...

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal product...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...