Animal Quotes · Page 209

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

— James Nachtwey

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

— Bertrand Russell

Animal attacks on humans are extremely hungry and thesick / But attacks on humansare animals to show their bravery

— Mak_786

I am a Pit Bull mixed with a Great Dane, mixed with a Rottweiler, mixed with a Bull Terrier, mixed with everything.…

— Brandon Rios

I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

— Russell Simmons

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

— Andrew Linzey

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

— Gary L. Francione

It's a responsibility as a parent to a human and a parent to a dog. Situations can happen, a dog can react…

— Gemma Atkinson

“The gray tomcat with the white priest’s collar enjoyed sharpening his claws on Franz Kafka’s Investigations of a Dog, a fable that…

— Nina George

I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking…

— Don Cheadle

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living…

— John Muir

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in…

— Karen Dawn

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man…

— Henry David Thoreau

The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant…

— Sharon Gannon

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human…

— Lloyd Alexander

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.…

— Dalai Lama

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

— Michael Pollan

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of…

— Gilbert White

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is…

— Helen Weston

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

— Christina Milian

“Take away memory—the sense of who we are—and human beings revert to animal behavior," Ryter says. "And animals are easier to exterminate…

— Rodman Philbrick

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

— Anonymous

Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

— Geraldine James

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind…

— Lori Foster

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur… We want Americans to eat fewer animals

— Wayne Pacelle

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

— Dale Jamieson

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

— George Herbert

“IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog. —Jack Kerouac Some of the…

— William Lashner

If you want to get a dog, please adopt. I know a lot of people want these fancy breeds, but I think…

— Skai Jackson

“We're not animals. We're not animals. We're not animals, we're not rabbits; we're people.”

— Alana Thompson

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

— Jamie Fellner

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

— Yann Martel

“I had a tame rat when I was a boy, and I loved that animal as only a boy would love an…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I worked at the zoo for three months, and I got to be very close with the 400 pound gorilla. And I…

— Josh Blue

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

— James Cromwell

I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

— Neal Barnard