Animal Quotes

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

I'm a really big animal lover.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

I'd rather bare skin than wear skin.