Animal Quote by Anonymous

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what…

— Delia Sherman

“Unlike captive animals, people’s perceptions of control or helplessness aren’t entirely dictated by outside forces. We have the ability to create choice by altering…

— Sheena Iyengar

Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the…

— Bob Torres

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

“We have created a false dichotomy between behaviors attributable to companion animals and those of other species that blinds us to the inherent worth…

— Bob Torres

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say,…

— Matthew Scully

“When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious”

— Rochelle Magee

“In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all.…

— Wayne Pacelle

“No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live according to…

— Mango Wodzak

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what…

— George Eliot

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as…

— Samuel Butler

“Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans…

— John Gray