Animal Quotes

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

All you need is a [insert plant], some [insert stick / rock / animal feces], and a good multitool.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

But I put my life on the line to save animals.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

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

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.