Animal Quotes

The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals).

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.