Animal Quotes
I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.
Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.
The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.
We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.
You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.
Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.
What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.
I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.
Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.
