Animal Quotes
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models
We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.
You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?
I think it's so archaic that cosmetic companies are still using animal by-products and insects in their products! It's 2016, why is anyone still doing that?
When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.
She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love." -Animal Magnetism
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.