Animals Quotes
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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.
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I've just always loved animals.
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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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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.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
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I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead 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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Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
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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.
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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?
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For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
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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...
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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.
