Quotes About Freedom Of 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. 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

#3. Im having an amazing life and it isnt over yet.

Cloris Leachman

#4. 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

#5. Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. 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

#7. Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.

Gregory Benford

#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. 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

#12. I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

Chad Channing

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

Wayne Dyer

#16. Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something else
They'd have done it.

If there are other matters and other worlds
There are.

Alberto Caeiro

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. What we see in a democracy governed by "representatives" is not a government "for the people" but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

Maya Angelou

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Mark Twain

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

Swami Vivekananda

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Robert Cheeke

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

George Eliot

#33. Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

Richard Hammond

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#37. Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Elie Wiesel