Animal Quotes · Page 150

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

— Victor Gollancz

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

— Robert Breault

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for…

— Doris Roberts

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime…

— John Burroughs

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

— Jim Hightower

All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

— Ernest Hemingway

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog,…

— Frederick Lenz

“And seriously, if we as a society can’t even bother to treat a simple, unassuming, stunningly gentle and demonstrably sentient creature like…

— Propagandhi

The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to…

— Jack Kevorkian

We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the…

— Marlee Matlin

“The Vick dogs are, after all, still simply dogs. Dogs of all breeds and backgrounds run into the street and get struck…

— Jim Gorant

Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

— T. Colin Campbell

The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this…

— Hippocrates

Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on…

— Bruce R. McConkie

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill…

— D. H. Lawrence

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

— Martina Navratilova

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

— Gertrude Stein

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

— John Ruskin

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or…

— Susan Orlean

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

— Susan Orlean

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are…

— Mohsin Hamid

You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love…

— Pat Derby

I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi…

— Rithvik Dhanjani

All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

— Susan Ertz

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

— H. G. Wells

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

— Charlie Chaplin

“The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very…

— Gene Doucette

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other…

— Yann Martel

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

— Edward Abbey

“Marsh had travelled on foot to the source of the Nile and once stood down a charging rhinoceros by intrepidly opening a…

— Wade Davis

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

— River Phoenix

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You know when little dogs bark & we say it's bc they are afraid & protecting themselves. When people bark its for…

— Laura Bell Bundy

“Don’t get me wrong. I like dogs. I love them, in fact. It’s their human counterparts I could sometimes do without.”

— Tracy Weber

I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision [for bringing] awareness to the most…

— Katie Cleary

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way…

— Ayn Rand

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of…

— Steve Martin

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

— Marianne Thieme

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

— Albert Payson Terhune