Animals Quotes

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one fo...

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdere...

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic...

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them ...

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me ...

I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really abou...

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get a...

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the ...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are ...

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; st...

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord G...

EVERY DOG’S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It’s just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith...

Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.A dog is a true and loving friend. A dogis also a hedonist.

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which ...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would gro...

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent...

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even whe...

Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining th...

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffe...

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is rel...

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourage...

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would ...

In the debate over the use of antibiotics in agriculture, a distinction is usually made between thei...

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages...

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior in...

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the...

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, t...

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

A meadow is nothing but a field of suffering. Every second some creature is dying in the gorgeous gr...

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the ide...

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is ...

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also,...

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-ma...

If called by a panther Don't anther.

...I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.