Animal Quotes

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

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

I bought my first house because of Animal House.

I'd rather bare skin than wear skin.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

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.

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.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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

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

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

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.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

Hey, moose!” I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we’ll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.

You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

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

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

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

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

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

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.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.