Animal Quotes
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When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.
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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Ethical fashion is the future of fashion. Gucci's decision to ban fur is a smart step in the right direction - for the environment, for animal rights, and for its massive base of young brand fans who will soon represent the largest consumer base in history.
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If you want a friend, feed any animal.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
