Animals Quotes
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Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.
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It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.
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I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.
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Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.
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To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts.
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In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
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Regarding man's harm to other animals, there are no reasons that are reasonable, and no excuses that are excusable. None.
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So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?
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I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain.
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I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days
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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
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Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.
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If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.
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I've just always loved animals.
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I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
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For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
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Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.
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What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.
