“Please, if necessary, blame my British indoctrination or blame my affiliation to the MSPCA (the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty… — Nick Trout Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far,… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many… — Manfred Kyber Copy Share Image
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked,… — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
Almost everything we do is automatic, yet we're not aware of that. We feel like there's a circle of light. We're like… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms,… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Our material needs are these: the problem of eating, of mating, of sleeping, of defending ourselves and of acquiring sense gratification. These… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not… — Alec Reid Copy Share Image
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“It inspires a bit of awe to see working dogs really do their jobs, to see thousands of years of history, instinct,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
An animal’s memory is not in words, they’ve got to be in pictures – it’s very detailed so let’s say the animal… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys,… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ...… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
“Einstein vigorously wagged his tail. Thoughtfully, Nora said, “Escaped . . .” Travis knew what she must be thinking. To Einstein, he… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There is only one person in the world, aside from your dog, who has any hope of liking you regardless of your… — H.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image