Animal Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

— Luigi Pirandello

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for…

— Andrew Linzey

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

— Timothy McVeigh

This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all…

— Jerry Bridges

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise…

— C. S. Lewis

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man…

— Henry Beston

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

— John Calvin

“No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals – because the relationship between humans…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the…

— Saint Bernard

“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to…

— Joseph de Maistre

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard…

— Stanley Schmidt