Animal Quote by Saint Augustine

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

— Saint Augustine

“Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain are two key motivators in all species. When we feel discomfort, we seek to escape the uncomfortable sensation.”

— Nir Eyal

Our creature comforts

— Matthew Henry

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

— Jeffrey Fry

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

— Albert Einstein

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have…

— Alicia Silverstone

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and…

— Aristotle

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct…

— Tom Robbins

“One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is…

— Schopenhauer Arthur

Having respect for animals makes us better humans..

— Jane Goodall

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

— Plato