Animal Quotes

• If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

  

  Betty White
  • Responsibility
  • Kindness
  • Breathe

• I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Kind
  • Shots
  • Seasons

• You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Able
  • Arms
  • Attraction

• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Children
  • Suffering

• We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.

  

  David Quammen
  • Single
  • Animal
  • Competition

• History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Animal
  • Man Is
  • Encouraged

• The British judiciary continues to label animal protectionists as 'extremists', whilst being unable to consider the Holocaust carnage inside every abattoir to be extreme.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Animal
  • Holocaust

• all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Reason
  • Able
  • Nervous

• The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • American
  • Animal

• The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Dog
  • Train

• Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Animal
  • Welfare
  • Cruelty

• I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Believe
  • Animal
  • Pet

• Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Moral

• There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.

  

  Gary Player
  • People
  • Animal
  • Foods

• You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • German
  • Humorous

• Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Beautiful
  • Animal

• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  

  William James
  • Pain
  • Spring
  • Loss

• People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

  

  David Attenborough
  • People
  • Animal

• Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Deep
  • Satisfaction

• I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • Up
  • Men
  • Important

• Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Inspiration
  • motivation

• In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Choices
  • Animal
  • Pet

• Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Rivalry

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