--- title: "11 Animals Kill Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 11 Animals Kill quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Animals Kill sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/james-anthony-froude-4052_animals_wild-animals-never-kill-for-sport-man-is_442518.png" --- > [Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-anthony-froude/wild-animals-never-kill-for-sport-man-is-the-only-one-to-whom-the/) [James Anthony Froude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-anthony-froude/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/james-anthony-froude-4052_animals_wild-animals-never-kill-for-sport-man-is_442518.png) > [The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-wade/the-way-that-we-live-with-potentially-dangerous-animals-is-not-to/) [Jeremy Wade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-wade/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/jeremy-wade-8413_animal_the-way-that-we-live-with-potentially-da_31611.jpg) > [“Animals kill each other to live ( normally for food ) - so why humans killing each other for .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ala-al-kofahi/animals-kill-each-other-to-live-normally-for-food-so-why-humans/) [Ala' Al kofahi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ala-al-kofahi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c25/ala-al-kofahi-216988_animals_animals-kill-each-other-to-live-normally_2198290.jpg) > [We don't murder, we kill… You don't murder animals, you kill them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-fuller/we-don-t-murder-we-kill-you-don-t-murder-animals-you-kill-them/) [Samuel Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-fuller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b2/samuel-fuller-21894_animal_we-don-t-murder-we-kill-you-don-t-murder_3029955.png) > [As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pythagoras/as-long-as-man-continues-to-be-the-ruthless-destroyer-of-lower-living/) [Pythagoras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pythagoras/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/pythagoras-2290_animal_as-long-as-man-continues-to-be-the-ruthl_446530.jpg) > [“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pythagoras/as-long-as-men-massacre-animals-they-will-kill-each-other-indeed-he/) [Pythagoras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pythagoras/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a0/pythagoras-2290_caring-for-others_as-long-as-men-massacre-animals-they-wil_90968.jpg) > [Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-butcher/animals-do-not-do-what-they-have-done-animals-kill-to-eat-to-defend/) [Jim Butcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-butcher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/429/jim-butcher-151_animal_animals-do-not-do-what-they-have-done-an_2075877.jpg) > [“On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/on-the-day-of-the-hunt-i-came-to-know-in-the-slick-center-of-my-bones/) [Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/965/barbara-kingsolver-200_animals_on-the-day-of-the-hunt-i-came-to-know-in_1069020.png) > [“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pythagoras/as-long-as-man-continues-to-be-the-ruthless-destroyer-of-lower-living-2/) [Pythagoras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pythagoras/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/pythagoras-2290_compassion_as-long-as-man-continues-to-be-the-ruthl_2414642.jpg) > [“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bekoff/we-generally-accept-that-it-s-natural-for-carnivorous-wild-animals-to/) [Marc Bekoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bekoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/577/marc-bekoff-24667_animal-rights_we-generally-accept-that-it-s-natural-fo_371608.png) > [“On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/on-the-day-of-the-hunt-i-came-to-know-in-the-slick-center-of-my-bones-2/) [Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/barbara-kingsolver-200_animals_on-the-day-of-the-hunt-i-came-to-know-in_1535907.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animals-kill/#itemlist", "name": "Animals Kill Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wild animals never kill for sport. 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The lion kills the baboon, the baboon kills fat grasshoppers. The elephant tears up living trees, draffing their precious roots from the dirt they love. The hungry antelope's shadow passes over the startled grass. And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. ...The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. 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