Animal Quotes

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

Animal abuse is still widespread and we have so much work ahead.

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

Spreading the word about real issues is still helping. Just being conscious of helping animals every day will help guide you to make beneficial decisions for animals.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

I couldn't imagine a home without animals.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.