Animals Quote by Larry Herzberg

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

— Alison Goldfrapp

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

— Victor Hugo

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own…

— Gary L. Francione

“People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact…

— Stacey O'Brien

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet…

— Boria Sax

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

— John Ruskin

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

— Peter Gay

Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many people believe…

— Manfred Kyber

“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary…

— Abhijit Naskar