To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the… — John Marin Copy Share Image
People have no respect for animals. They dont know how much they suffer more than humans. Dont treat animals like they are… — Savannah J Copy Share Image
I am working on getting the word out about the different ways that everyone can contribute to the ASPCA, and help the… — Angelina Pivarnick Copy Share Image
If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“The morality which emerges from the observation of the whole animal kingdom may be summed up in the words: "Do to others… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“As soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image. It cannot… — Friedrich Nietzsche & EisNinE Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
“In 2004, the Animals in War monument outside Hyde Park in London was created by the English sculptor David Backhouse. The monument… — Anthony J. Nocella II Copy Share Image
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals! Postman: Uh, yes, they… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue. — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
“...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat… — Christine Stevens Copy Share Image
The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live… — Chanctetinyea J. J. Ouellette Copy Share Image
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If I were an animal, I'd probably be a bald eagle, since I'm already bald and I love to fish. But I'd… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“You can’t tame a wolf and expect it to lie before your hearth in harmony. Sooner or later, the nature of the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
If you love animals and you care for them... don't wear them, because they have feelings and personalities just like humans do. — Sarah Jeffery Copy Share Image
I want land where I can keep animals. There's something so simple and wholesome about that kind of life and living off… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
