Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test:… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. 'Cause they see change on the street all the time and it's driving… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
“Good quote: Lee was thirty-nine, still what we would consider a fairly young man, but for the dog-for all dogs- time dashes… — Susan Orlean (Rin Tin Tin Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“The relationship between a dog and a human is always complicated. The two know each other in a way nobody else quite… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years there will be about 100 000 people who will be preparing the way for themselves with the… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“he debuted the Cozy Dog—the first corn dog on a stick. At first, he wanted to call his creation the “Crusty Cur,”… — Will Pearson Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Ugh, puppy mills. These commercial breeding facilities are horrendous. The animals are kept in tiny wire cages, with little to no human… — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image
I had read the Animal House script, and by hook and crook, I finally got an audition. It was a great one.… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“None of the writers suggest that rape may be morally permissible dependent on “contextual relations.” None of the writers suggest that the… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, the giant, three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld appears next to her—sans two of its heads—and sits down.… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
“Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
By 'God' I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest of God’s animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“if you have ever wondered why horse-drawn carriages and dogsleds are far more common modes of travel than sheep-dragged sleighs, it is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image