Animals Quotes
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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.
Ingrid Newkirk -
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
Captain Beefheart
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi -
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Walter Gilbert -
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
Farley Mowat -
I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
Kaley Cuoco -
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
Eartha Kitt -
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
Sigmund Freud
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Dogs don't censor themselves. Maybe animals were smarter than people. The dog was so happy. My mom and dad too. It felt good to know that they loved the dog, that they let themselves do that. And somehow it seemed that the dog helped us be a better family.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.
Elayne Boosler -
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
W. G. Sebald -
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm de Chazal -
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie -
Animals were given freedom. Mankind took it away.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
Antoine Lavoisier -
I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Captain Beefheart -
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
Laura Mennell -
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell -
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
Tamsin Egerton -
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford -
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw