“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That… — Seung Sahn Copy Share Image
“...man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like leeches.… — Unbearable Lightness of Being Copy Share Image
My favourite actor in the world is Richard Burton. I just think he just had everything. I probably couldn't play him, because… — Claes Bang Copy Share Image
It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
If you see a dog in a hot car, and you think that he's in danger or that he's been there for… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
The difference between "trained OK" and "trained perfectly" doesn't really matter all that much to me. I once did a film with… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Animal Farm is not a book about how pigs—animals—when bestowed with power start to behave like men. It is a book about… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Happiness is a warm puppy. Dogs never bite me. Just humans. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous… — Soniya Ahmed Copy Share Image
Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, there are machines that can detect and record brain signals which are proof of consciousness of a living being. These signals… — Readtrepreneur Publishing Copy Share Image
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally… — Joan Dunayer Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the best sanctuaries are places like the Performing Animal Welfare Society in Northern California, where he… — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I looked out the window & watched a dog chase his tail for 10 minutes & thought WOW dogs are so easily… — Lars Propst Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“As Herb sliced his small partridge stuffed with wild rice, the fresh vegetables artfully arranged on his plate by the cook, the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time is a relationship that we have with the rest of the universe; or more accurately, we are one of the clocks,… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“By using two elephants to do the job, damage will occur just because of how large, lumbering, and unsubtle elephants are. They… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image