Animal Quotes

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

I think that's part of people wanting a wholesome life, to surround yourself with farm animals and fields. That's sort of an American ideal.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

Young people understand that you don't have to wear or eat animals. I get that it can be cheaper to use animal products - but using animals really cuts corners.

I think because I'm 6'4" and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

Man is no man, but a wolf

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.

How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.