Animal Quotes

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

Man is a bad animal.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Support your right to arm bears.

Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

We are the storytelling animal.

A cat is nobody's fool.

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.