Animal Quotes

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

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.

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

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.

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.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

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.

I don't know if I have sexual magnetism or animal magnetism, though sometimes I'll find a squirrel stuck to my forehead.

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.

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.