Animal Quotes

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show.

The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch

I don't do farm animals. Can't stand hay in your leathers? Or wool in my teeth.

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat.

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

Animals are wonderful, because they put you in a great emotional state.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.