Animal Quotes
Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.
When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.
It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.
Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.
The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.
My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.
Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.
We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'