Animal Quotes

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.

My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal.

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

Whales are cultural animals, and we're cultural animals, so although we shouldn't expect whales to do what we do, it doesn't seem unreasonable to hypothesize that we might share some of these things.

I've been very passionate about animals for as long as I can remember, and ever since I became an actress, I've always done my best to get involved with animal charities and such.

Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.

There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.

Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.