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> [What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/what-struck-me-whenever-i-visited-a-farm-was-how-much-more/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

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## More by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

> [Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/many-people-have-heard-the-remarkable-example-of-devotion-involving-a/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [“Donald Griffin’s The Question of Animal Awareness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/donald-griffin-s-the-question-of-animal-awareness/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [“Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/then-in-a-great-crash-they-threw-themselves-to-the-floor-ears-flopped/)

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> [The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/the-curiosity-of-cats-is-like-their-affection-of-a-purity-and/)

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> [We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/we-might-miss-the-sign-or-we-may-be-unable-to-read-the-expression-but/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [“The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals-charles-darwin/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [“A lion is not a lion if it is only free to eat, to sleep and to copulate. It deserves to be free to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/a-lion-is-not-a-lion-if-it-is-only-free-to-eat-to-sleep-and-to/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and now it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/what-still-frightens-me-is-that-society-is-fickle-there-was-a-time/)

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> [“Voltaire responded that, on the contrary, vivisection showed that the dog has the same organes de sentiment that a human has. "Answer me, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/voltaire-responded-that-on-the-contrary-vivisection-showed-that-the/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [Dogs never lie about love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/dogs-never-lie-about-love/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/every-time-i-told-my-cocker-spaniel-taffy-my-very-first-dog-that-we/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/perhaps-one-central-reason-for-loving-dogs-is-that-they-take-us-away/)

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> [“Surely we can train ourselves to an empathic imaginative sympathy for another species. Taught what to look for in facial features, gestures, postures, behavior,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/surely-we-can-train-ourselves-to-an-empathic-imaginative-sympathy-for/)

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/)

> [Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/animals-love-and-suffer-cry-and-laugh-their-hearts-rise-up-in/)

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> [“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/we-are-not-encouraged-on-a-daily-basis-to-pay-careful-attention-to/)

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