Animal Quotes

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

When the cats away, the mice will play.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.