Best Animal Qoutes
5037 Animal quotes by 2417 unique authors
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you,…
— Mother Teresa
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The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some…
— Christina Applegate
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Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing.…
— Rajneesh
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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain…
— Rajneesh
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Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and…
— Rajneesh
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Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems…
— Rajneesh
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of…
— Yukio Mishima
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
— Mark Twain
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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
— Frank Deford
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and…
— Jane Goodall
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A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
— Frederick The Great
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The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
— Thornton Wilder
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
— Groucho Marx
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Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its…
— Bob Garfield
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There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
— Stephen King
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on…
— Russell Hoban
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the…
— Black Elk
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart…
— Carl Sagan
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life…
— Plutarch
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
— Seneca the Younger
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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
— Paul Harvey
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