Top 100 Quotes About Animals
#1. I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.
Ingrid Newkirk
#2. Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals ... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
Cyndi Lauper
#3. Animals are so beautiful. Why does an American dentist need to go to Africa to kill them? Look, I get it. You're a hunter? Go kill a deer and eat it or a bear where there's a lot of them. But I just don't get it.
Eric Bolling
#4. Her father had always said a person could tell much about a man by the way he dealt with animals, simpletons, and children.
-Adara's thoughts
Kinley MacGregor
#5. A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.
Tommy Lee
#6. Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.
James Patterson
#7. With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy.
Dean Koontz
#8. Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.
Amish Tripathi
#9. Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.
Mary E. Pearson
#10. If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.
Michael Pollan
#11. He came over last night. He'd been out chasing foxes with his friends, and you know what he and the boys are like when they do the werewolf thing. The women, the drinking, and the farm animals." "Feeding on raw steak before he went out didn't curb the need to eat sheep?
Stephanie Rowe
#12. There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
Gary L. Francione
#14. What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.
Frans Lanting
#15. Which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.
Geert Hofstede
#16. People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. It is a science fact that some animals do dream.
It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.
Toba Beta
#18. PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.
Pamela Anderson
#19. I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
Lara Jean Chorostecki
#20. Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.
Erlend Loe
#21. I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.
Katy Evans
#22. (However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order to prevent drowning, because they are air-breathing mammals, not fish. So if they dream, it is probably in only one hemisphere at a time.)
Michio Kaku
#23. I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
#24. If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
Chief Dan George
#25. The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#26. And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.
Michael Chabon
#27. The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals).
Muhammad Al-Bukhari
#28. In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.
Gregory Benford
#29. Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
Wendell Berry
#30. But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.
Benjamin Hoff
#31. We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#32. In the mind of The English, kissing in the rain, as well as other public displays of affection, belongs to the category of soft porn. Sane people don't do soft porn in public. Only animals do. And aliens.
Angela Kiss
#33. There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
Natalie Imbruglia
#35. My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.
Tricia Helfer
#36. The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
James Cromwell
#37. We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.
Naomi Oreskes
#38. Animals should be given a chance to express their natural behavior.
Frans De Waal
#39. When I came to consciousness my whole interest was in wild animals.
Ted Hughes
#40. Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.
Sam Keen
#41. All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!
Adela Popescu
#42. I would miss the horse. I've never liked walking. If God had meant man to walk he wouldn't have given us horses. Wonderful animals. I think of them as the word escape, covered in hair and with a leg at each corner.
Mark Lawrence
#43. I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.
Wayne Coyne
#45. Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.
Matthew Scully
#47. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
Thomas Pynchon
#48. My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries ... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals ...
Katherine Dunn
#49. Sometimes, those who put up the biggest shields are those who are protecting the biggest hearts. My Gram used to always say, if you want to know the size of a person's heart, look at how they treat animals or those that can offer them nothing in return.
Penelope Ward
#50. We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.
Armin Van Buuren
#51. Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#52. We walk and walk through the gray ashy dusk and the forest starts to fall asleep: The trees lie down side by side by side, the creek halts, the plants sink back into the earth, the animals switch places with their shadows, and then, so do we.
Jandy Nelson
#53. A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don't also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?
Roman Payne
#54. Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked."
When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
George Orwell
#55. Simply put, killing healthy or treatable animals is immoral.
Nathan Winograd
#56. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer
#57. We are irrational animals trained to be rational.
Ben Tolosa
#58. The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals
Chrissie Hynde
#59. Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.
Wayne Pacelle
#60. There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
Joseph Addison
#61. Hey, all the cool kids are sleeping with stuffed animals these days.
Shannon Messenger
#62. In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic - until the day I learned that animals have no souls.
Susan Kay
#63. I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.
Lorraine Toussaint
#64. Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
Samuel Johnson
#65. In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
Peter Singer
#66. I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.
Susan Schneider
#67. Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.
Desmond Morris
#68. I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
Kevin Nealon
#69. The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.
Swami Vivekananda
#70. I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happens to animals on modern factory farms and in today's slaughterhouses, I wanted to throw up - I literally couldn't believe it.
Steve-O
#71. When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#73. Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm De Chazal
#74. The Jungle Law is a law without exceptions. Only the strong survives. Animals are following it, human societies are following it. It is the law of the beast, and it knows neither reason nor compassion
Stephan Attia
#75. As animals go, even in so limited a space as our world, man is botched and ridiculous. Few other brutes are so stupid, so docile or so cowardly.
H.L. Mencken
#76. The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water ... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.
Martin Seligman
#77. Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along
Charles Bukowski
#80. Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#81. The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#82. Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
Robert Greene
#83. Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.
E. M. Forster
#84. We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
Diane Ackerman
#85. Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.
Stuart Immonen
#86. ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH. - PETE RICHERSON AND ROBERT BOYD
Peter Watts
#87. Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#88. Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
Jose Marti
#89. There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Val Kilmer
#90. There are so many great animals in our local shelters that people don't really know about. Annually, two to four million animals are euthanized, and we can bring that number down significantly by going to our local shelter and adopting and also by spaying and neutering your pets.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
#91. Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of that one sick man, and it's up to me and a half-mexican to stop him.
Dave Attell
#92. I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it's really quite tight.
Eddie Izzard
#93. Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
Jim Fowler
#94. Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
Siri Hustvedt
#95. I've found it's never the animals you have to worry about, Miki. It's the humans.
Shelly Laurenston
#96. Eventually we hope to drive among the animals - just as they do in African game parks - but, for now, sit back and enjoy the self-guided tour.
Michael Crichton
#97. Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
Ingrid Newkirk
#98. We don't want your kind in this city.
Take your pack of animals and go back to where you came from.
Mark my words
if you open this club, it will be the last thing you ever do.
Blood will run.
Sara Humphreys
#99. Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!
William McNamara
#100. So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.
Charles Darwin
