Animal Quotes

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

Abstain from animals.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

I deal with misunderstood aspects of animal behaviour like anxiety and aggression. I teach people how to respect different species and let a dog be a dog.

One may not eat what has a face.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.