Animal Quotes
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.