Animals Quotes · Page 49

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive

— Haruki Murakami

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.”

— Wendy Beck

Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

— Charles Darwin

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

— Erich Fromm

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

— Peter Max

Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.

— Anonymous

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

— Erich Fromm

“If we're the only animals who know in advance we're going to die, we're also probably the only animals who would submit…

— David Foster Wallace

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

— Wayne Pacelle

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

— Charles Bukowski

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by…

— Yukio Mishima

“The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the…

— Frank Herbert

“But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said. "We know us," said Mother. "They're…

— Ruta Sepetys

“All animals solve the same age-old problems relating to food, partnerships, sex, shelter, home, and caring for their young.”

— Bernd Heinrich

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions…

— Henry Beston

“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In…

— Leo Tolstoy

“No one with an ounce of empathy could fail to be appalled by the distressing footage – taken on fur farms in…

— Mimi Bekhechi

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of…

— Samuel Johnson

The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal…

— Jerry Vlasak

“I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally…

— pattrice jones

'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All…

— Shaun Ryder

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and…

— Joe Arpaio

Our family always rescued animals from local shelters or from the street or from someone who didn't want their animal. We always…

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

— Alison Eastwood

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

— Faith Hunter

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

— Confucius

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

— Carlos Fuentes

You usually love the animal based on its beauty but it loves you absolutely based on your behavior

— Tivea

“When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the vultures and the feral dogs.”

— George R.R. Martin

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“...little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.”

— Michael Ende

“And though I have no idea how, I have to keep fighting, even here in the belly of the beast.”

— Victoria Aveyard

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

— Alice Walker

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

— Thomas Carlyle

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

— Tom Snyder

I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

— Herman Melville

“What animals make the best doctors? A. Ducks, they’re natural quacks.”

— R. Eugene Pearson

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.

— Anthony D. Williams