Animal Quotes

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

If you want a friend, feed any animal.

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether