to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man…

I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…

— Joaquin Phoenix

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Humans are animals too, but some do not like to work from expectations.

— Mak_786

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

— Eric Hoffer

I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in…

— Caroline Knapp

Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to…

— Konrad Lorenz

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

— William Shakespeare

“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of…

— Michael Tobias

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

That dog, I say that dog is lower than a snake full of buckshot.

— Foghorn Leghorn

I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe.

— Anonymous

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

— Gary L. Francione