Animal Quotes
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
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.
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.
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.
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
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.
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.
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.
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
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.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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.
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.
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.
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
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.
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.
There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
I don't know if I have sexual magnetism or animal magnetism, though sometimes I'll find a squirrel stuck to my forehead.
Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.
That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
