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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. — Taylor Caldwell
I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice… — James Cameron
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. — Roger Caras
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your… — Roger Caras
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle
A committee is an animal with four back legs. — John le Carre
I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me… — Jim Carrey
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs? — Julian Casablancas
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and… — Willa Cather
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients… — Tracy Chapman
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane… — Julia Child
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic… — Noam Chomsky
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. — Winston Churchill
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and… — Kelly Clarkson
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? — John Cleese
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. — Jean Cocteau
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles,… — Pamela Anderson
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. — Mark Twain
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is… — C.S. Lewis

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