Animal Quotes

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

Veganism can resurrect Eden and create heaven on Earth. We can have a place where humans view animals in awe, and animals view humans with a curious aloofness.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.