When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The horse gave his arm a nudge when he reached to remove the headstall. With his large hand, he gave the animal… — Candis Terry Copy Share Image
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“...they'd been some of the most fully live creatures I'd ever seen --- eyes gleaming with intelligence, bodies rippling with muscle, radiating… — Ransom Rigs Copy Share Image
I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we… — Sydney M. Lamb Copy Share Image
“After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“And as he watched, the first powerful four-legged lion stepped into the clearing. The male animal shook the snow from its dark,… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
“Impressing the ladies is an arduous task ', as the narrator is always saying on Animal Planet...'Perhaps no creature has a more… — James Lever Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are presented as a hunting expeditions (“As British close in on Basra, Iraqis scurry away”;… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Those of us who are in tune with nature and animals know it is our way of life, Bram. There is a… — Ralph Helfer Copy Share Image
I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
“Maybe creatures that are not like each other are supposed to hurt each other to find out which one is stronger, so… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
“Within a few months Mitch Bush, head veterinarian at the National Zoo, and David Wildt, a young reproductive physiologist working as a… — Stephen J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“The birds screeched and continued to dive at us. One of them settled on a nearby branch and began berating us. I… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
“They have achieved a level of organization far beyond others of their species. Unfortunately, it is being used for destructive purposes at… — Janet Taylor Lisle Copy Share Image
You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image