Animal Quotes
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.
Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.
What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.
<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.
Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and 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.
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.
The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.
Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.
It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
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!
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.
No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who knows what's next? We didn't' make this world, we're just the poor fools who are living in it.
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.
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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.
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.
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.
I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.
"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."
To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
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.
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
