Animal Quotes

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.

In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

America is new to instrumental dance tracks on the radio, we were all so surprised "Animals" did so well on the radio.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.