Best Other Animals Quotations
124 Other Animals quotes by 96 unique authors
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...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of…
— Peter Singer
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Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities…
— Peter Singer
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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other…
— Harry Lorayne
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But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man…
— Pythagoras
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The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to…
— Dave Barry
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The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull…
— Desmond Tutu
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I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
— Jane Goodall
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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs…
— Bill Nye
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals,…
— Quintilian
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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is…
— Peter Singer
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In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
— James Surowiecki
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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
— Jonathan Swift
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
— Frans de Waal
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A…
— Carl Sagan
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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget…
— Gary Paulsen
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Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
— Marc Bekoff
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Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or…
— Marc Bekoff
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...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all…
— David Abram
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Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
— Christopher Hitchens
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