Animal Quotes

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

Never work with animals or children.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.