Animal Quotes
Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made.
Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.
I am here, come closer, ” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.
A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a “tip of my hat” to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!
The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.
Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.
If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal
Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.
Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.
Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.
People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.
Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.
We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.
We don’t “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.
I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.
(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts
We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.
Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me.
I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.
Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.
Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.
The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.
Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.
He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.
Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.
Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?
I really don't think it's a case of not caring at all about animals. Instead, I think it's a case of caring so much about one's own self that everything else becomes immaterial.
If black and white are too different and separate calories zebras wouldn't have both.