Animals Quotes

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Facts
  • Divine
  • Bees

• Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

  

  Alexander von Humboldt
  • Cruelty
  • Vices
  • Ignoble

• Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Intelligent
  • Animals
  • Dolphins

• It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Ironic
  • Yard
  • Pigeon

• Regarding man's harm to other animals, there are no reasons that are reasonable, and no excuses that are excusable. None.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Reasons
  • Harm
  • Man's

• Other animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see, and families to care for, just like you and me.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Eyes
  • Hearts
  • Families

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Gap

• The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Sales
  • Here
  • Guns

• Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

  

  Epictetus
  • Grief
  • Animals
  • Consolation

• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Soul
  • Share
  • Privilege

• Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Corpses
  • Scorched
  • Battened

• What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Different
  • Travel
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Delight

• Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Different
  • Instincts
  • Conduct

• I've just always loved animals.

  

  Doris Day
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Animals

• I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain.

  

  Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Figures
  • Companionship
  • Artifacts

• Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Stories
  • Animals
  • Directions

• 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.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Pain
  • Animals
  • Vegetarian

• Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearlessness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to live. Such were the people Turgot was sent to redeem.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Children
  • Hopeless
  • Ambitions

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Joy
  • Pride
  • Sin

• The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Animals
  • Use
  • Factory

• If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Different
  • Years
  • Plants

• 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.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Nature
  • Animals
  • Prison

• Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Remember
  • Animals

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