A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“This book is divided into chapters, though not in the traditional chapter division of subject matters. This is because this book also… — Yohai Reuben Copy Share Image
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Copy Share Image
Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Spence hasn't been in a ring with an animal like me. I have to be a dog, touch him and make him… — Shawn Porter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The implication is clear: as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, “The emotional tail wags the rational dog.” The affect… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For most of their history in China, Pugs were treasured dogs. By law, they could only be owned by nobility or by… — Liz Palika Copy Share Image
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
“Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at the central coming-and-going point. Gil called… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“case. They appeared to be the front legs of a calf starting just above the ankle joint. In the actual MRI, the… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
I always say, "Don't let a 'no' or even a dismissal defeat you, let it be the fire that makes you want… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural… — Richard Pitcairn Copy Share Image
I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with a puppy's rubber mouse, for instance, it only confuses the… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys,… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image