Animal Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

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.

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

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

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

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

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

I had decided that I wanted a dog from an animal shelter. Normally, presidents have purebred dogs, but my is a Labrador-griffon mix. Absolutely adorable.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.