Animal Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

“When we accustom ourselves to see animals suffer, we in time overcome the natural repugnancy of the sense of anguish, we become less accessible…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to meet and…

— Matthew Scully

“We need another wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and…

— Daphne Sheldrick

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man…

— Henry Beston

It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted…

— Nathaniel Branden

“Unless, as human beings, we come not only to accept but to openly rejoice in our fundamental and inescapable nature as predators, we condemn…

— L. Neil Smith

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened…

— Charlotte Brontë

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

— Charles Darwin

“Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are…

— T.F. Hodge

“Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or…

— Russell Banks

“Köves always found it ironic that humans, despite being God’s most sublime creation, were still just animals at the core, their behavior driven to…

— Dan Brown