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Animals Quotes by Dalai Lama
- Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We…
- Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is…
- We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is…
- People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I…
- I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man…
- Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their…
- I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to…
- On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals…
- I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man…
- We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.
- Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future…
- The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity…
More Animals Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman