Quotes About Freedom For Animals

#1. Circus is an absolute disgrace of the humanity! Real clowns are those who support and maintain the circuses! Honourable men want a simple thing: Along with freedom for men, freedom for Animals too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Your routine attitude towards the animals must be to let them free! Your routine attitude towards the people must be to let them free!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Jeannette Walls

#4. Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#7. Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.

Russell Hoban

#9. If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.

Sharon Gannon

#10. Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

Rose George

#11. Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Formal training is arduous, disruptive and expensive and so best reserved for getting across the most critical concepts and principles, and the skills that employees use every day.

Clive Shepherd

#14. To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Phyllis Bottome

#15. Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

Tuvia Bielski

#16. All the saddle horses, and even some of the pack animals, were affected by the scent of the wild herd. Freedom still lived deep down in their hearts. That was why a broken horse, no matter how gentle, became the wildest of the wild when he got free.

Zane Grey

#17. 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

#18. Don't waste dollars counting cents.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Every person's every action has an effect.

Rosanne Cash

#20. Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things.

Frances Hardinge

#21. Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

Pat Derby

#22. The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

Robert Cheeke

#23. Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

John Dewey

#24. I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

John Feldmann

#25. I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

Robert Vaughn

#26. You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

Pat Derby

#27. Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

Carl Jung

#29. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

Scarlett Thomas

#30. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

#31. To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution. Impossible to enjoy the animals otherwise. Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.

Yann Martel

#32. Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

Peter Kreeft

#33. When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#34. Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special.

Mark Andrew Poe

#35. Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.

Kelly Rowland

#36. The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

Peter Singer

#37. There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

Danny Pintauro

#38. Volumes can be and have been written about
the issue of freedom versus dictatorship,
but, in essence, it comes down to a single question:
do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals
and to rule them by physical force?

Ayn Rand

#39. Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Donald Norman