Animals Quotes
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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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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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I've just always loved animals.
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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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I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead 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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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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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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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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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
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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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Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.
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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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Animals don't frighten me. Mankind does.
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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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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.
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I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!
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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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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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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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There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
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I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
