Animal Quotes

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus te...

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-base...

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. ...

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, ...

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reas...

I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such fre...

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and...

The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ...

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was...

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ...

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its...

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs,...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...

I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanw...

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths wove...

It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."The bird sw...

The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named...

Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Y...

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to som...

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab ...

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal ...

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is rel...

Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence...

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourage...

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f...

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with...

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, a...

Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very...

I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softl...

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we c...

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs o...

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrou...

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You...

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around...

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin...

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no othe...

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should...

Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&W...

Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing...

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fi...

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not...

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid...

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your per...

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing ...

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I fee...

Man is by nature a political animal.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business ...

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at th...

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, bu...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thi...

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction...

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, s...

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lov...

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A wom...

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was...

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the onl...

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...

Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems...

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It ...

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any ...

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to...

If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and...

I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and p...

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is contin...

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protectio...

There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sin...

For it is just this question of pain that partsus. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick...

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wh...