“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
An animal has been made by God just as you have been. He is therefore a fellowcreature. He has not the power… — Lord Baden Powell Copy Share Image
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're… — Anohni Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
“They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be… — Louisa Edwards Copy Share Image
“Large shapes — like wings — float up to her, opening and closing — gently at first — until they slowly fill… — Unica Zürn Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People are seen as sheep, and as their way of seeing that, propagandists and wicked hypocrites say they are animals and so… — Shawn G Cullen Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, about eight, I remember going into the Body Shop - that was my first introduction to… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“there is nothing more gullible in the whole animal world than a human being? One has this hysterical belief in the non-recurrence… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Pet owners like to think of themselves as the parents of their animals, but they overlook the fact that the ‘children’ they… — Charles Danten Copy Share Image
“Animals don't know exactly what will happen when they die any more than we do. In the absence of specific knowledge, they… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The term ‘female’ is derogatory not because it emphasises woman’s animality, but because it imprisons her in her sex; and if this… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy… — Jim O'Heir Copy Share Image
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires,… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong -… — Doug Baldwin Copy Share Image
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
“Mammals live in herds and packs and troops because there’s safety in numbers. A mammal doesn’t consciously decide whether to stick with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's sobering really," she thought, "how easy it is to reduce a human being to the state of an animal. You just… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Healing is about choices—choices to treat or not to treat, to choose one type of intervention over another, or to choose one… — Wanda Buckner Copy Share Image
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
