Animal Quotes

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

Animals are good to think with.

Simply put, killing healthy or treatable animals is immoral.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me.

The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.