I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“meat and dairy industries are based on breaking the most fundamental emotional bond in the mammal kingdom.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the… — Homer Simpson Copy Share Image
“Until you don't treat animals with love and affection, you are not civilized and cultured” — Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix… — Matthew Van Zyl Copy Share Image
Although I certainly do love animals, I have to admit that I also love eating them. (Particularly cows. And chickens. And the… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that… — Saadi Copy Share Image
If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I work with dogs and cats all day long. I work by myself, for myself. I'm around 15 or 20 dogs every… — Ivory Copy Share Image
'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, "The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Is your dog in a coma?" Quinn asked when the dog didn't move a muscle. "No. Lump leads an active and demanding… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs. — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I count myself as a feminist. I'm a vegan, so I believe in animal rights. I stand behind the Black Lives Matter… — Oliver Stark Copy Share Image
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to… — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
“And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.” — Cleopatra Mathis Copy Share Image
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape… — Jonathan Ross Copy Share Image
