Animal Quotes

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

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.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.