Animals Quotes

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...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and en...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, w...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

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

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

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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