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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but al...

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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

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

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Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has ...

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

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Groucho MarxThe Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!

Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture ...

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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with co...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists a...

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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... They are not our breth...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal na...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, ...

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The dog is the god of frolic.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men...

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There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited...

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And so the Steppenwolf had two natures, a human and a wolfish one. This was his fate, and it may wel...

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A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wh...

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Leave it man. Squirrel’s botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark’s intae hurtin animals… ...

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To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruel...

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Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some ...

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I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. ...

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting...

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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards a...

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No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out,...

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Know your load. That’s rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins...

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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better of...

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James HerriotAll Creatures Great and Small

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequentl...

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You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectl...

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I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural ...

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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all ...

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The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentra...

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Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer ...

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Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentalit...

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Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s aut...

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We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonThe Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonThe Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'No,' I said.People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lor...

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

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals o...

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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

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To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the sk...

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many o...

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood an...

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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

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People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all c...

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Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and convers...

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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided ...

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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated ro...

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

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on w...

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Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket...

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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birt...

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As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminate...

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We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p...

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We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial setting...

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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that...

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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal...

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Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, c...

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We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb...

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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

Her learning to sew (from a book Yankel brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear a...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Every dog must have his day.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few ...

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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

the doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary’s purification can be acknowl...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

The lamb, having survived the storm unharmed and no longer afraid, came up to Jesus and put its mout...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food pr...

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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childis...

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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And the...

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It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

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Karl PilkingtonThe Ricky Gervais Show - First

He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel bra...

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Kate DiCamilloFlora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves be...

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Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...

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If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will loo...

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