Animals Quotes
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If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
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As in other animals, the nerves and chemicals that make up our basic brain structure have a direct connection with our body. When the old brain takes over, it partially shuts down the higher brain, our conscious mind, and propels the body to run, hide, fight, or, on occasion, freeze. By the time we are fully aware of our situation, our body may already be on the move. If the fight/flight/freeze response is successful and we escape the danger, we recover our internal equilibrium and gradually “regain our senses.
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Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.
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By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
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Animals are just as important as we are.
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Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
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I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.
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You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.
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I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
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I have a pretty good understanding of animals.
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Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
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Unlike humans, who have the power (or curse) of denial to keep them in an abusive situation, animals will always move toward balance. Automatically, the brain says, “Hey, finally I get a rest.” They are relieved to be out of that state of constant tension.
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God answered the prayers of animals.
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Animals are like people because people are animals.
