Animal Quotes

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

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.

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.

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.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

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

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

Animals are footprints of God.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.