Animal Quotes

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?

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.

God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?

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

Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt?

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.