Top 100 We Are Animals Quotes
#1. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.
Claudia Rankine
#2. On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals kill to survive, and we are animals.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.
Richard Myerscough
#4. I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.
Scarlett Johansson
#5. We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.
Jay Michaelson
#6. At our base level we are animals. And so, my theory is that women are only considered attractive as long as they look fertile because we, as humans, are made to reproduce and move on. And so we kind of can't ever get away from our animalistic nature, in a way.
Erin Davie
#7. We are animals, yet are expected to be so much more. Although honor requires us to make altruistic decisions, even acting for the benefit of other people keeps coming back to self-interest, no matter how much one attempts to conceal it.
Brian Herbert
#8. We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
Sebastiao Salgado
#9. I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
Rachel Zucker
#10. We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
T.C. Boyle
#11. I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in the animal kingdom. No dinner, no movie - just a quick sniff, 'Alright, let's go.'
Adam Ferrara
#12. 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
#13. The weather, the plants, the animals, and our human survival are all inextricably linked. The natural elements were at war with one another because we abused our ecosystem. Abused our atmosphere. Abused our animals. Abused our fellow man.
Tahereh Mafi
#14. I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.
Tim Dorsey
#15. It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.
Mohsin Hamid
#16. Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
David Perlmutter
#17. There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
Richard Linklater
#18. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell
#19. We will make you realize how ridiculous it was, the lot of you waving the national flag and singing the national anthem. We will prove to you that you are nothing but filthy stinking bodies. That you are no better than the carcasses of starving animals. -
Han Kang
#20. The men in the nearby village fear us, thinking we are witches. Women who live without men - especially old women who grow herbs, heal the sick, and befriend wild animals - are always suspect.
Pat Murphy
#21. We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon?
Peter Singer
#22. Spike Spiegel: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
Jet Black: Whatever ...
Spike Spiegel: Kids ... animals ... and women with atitude.
Jet Black: Oh?
Spike Spiegel: So why do we have all three neatly gathered on our ship!
Keiko Nobumoto
#23. Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
Chris Noth
#24. To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals ... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.
Gregor Collins
#25. I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#26. At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.
Ingrid Newkirk
#27. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
Frans De Waal
#28. PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
Ingrid Newkirk
#29. The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.
Eckhart Tolle
#30. As this chapter has shown, we are in the midst of an emergency in which appalling suffering is being inflicted on millions of animals for purposes that on any impartial view are obviously inadequate to justify the suffering.
Peter Singer
#31. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
#32. We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.
Michael Fox
#33. We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.
Peter Singer
#34. All the animals and creatures of this earth are our former brothers and sisters but because we believe that we have "dominion" over them, we have become cruel little emperors.
John O'Donohue
#35. Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.
Jon Katz
#36. People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
Michael Shermer
#37. Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!..
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.
Linda Bender
#39. It is as if, in response to the creation of digital networks, we are changing our behaviour to become not just networked individuals but 'network animals'.
Paul Mason
#40. I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?
Rabih Alameddine
#41. We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.
Richard Dawkins
#42. We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.
Sharon Gannon
#43. We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.
Kenneth Eade
#44. What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#46. For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
Michael Pollan
#47. Distinguishing the first true birds from their feathered dinosaur relations has become increasingly difficult. If we define birds as warm-blooded, feathered, bipedal animals that lay eggs, then many coelurosaurs are birds, so we have to take another approach.
Brian Switek
#48. Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.
River Phoenix
#49. And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are - how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended. So
Michael Crichton
#50. It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#51. When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
Rob Bell
#52. Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
Richard Paul Evans
#53. Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.
Willie Nelson
#54. The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that exist as means to the ends of men. That's morally wrong. We need to stop treating all persons - whether human or nonhuman - as things.
Gary L. Francione
#56. The trend for rewilding our cities is growing. It's positive, it enlightens, it's widespread, and it helps. We need to retrofit and reimagine cities as planet-friendly citadels. They're our hives and reefs. Sea mussels aren't the only animals living in individual shells that are glued together.
Diane Ackerman
#57. We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
Terence McKenna
#58. I still don't believe it. It's not in him.
Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we're all animals here. And we all have a killer's instinct.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
Matthew Fox
#60. My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#61. We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.
Chinua Achebe
#62. We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.
Paul Gruchow
#63. We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don't follow that.
Cesar Millan
#64. We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
Albert Schweitzer
#65. Human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
Alice Walker
#66. There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.
Jane Roberts
#67. The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
Alexandra Harney
#68. As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.
Steve Martin
#69. We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
John Zerzan
#70. Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them kinfolk of ours, relatives. If they are relatives of ours, then we should treat them with more respect than if they are not.
Sydney M. Lamb
#71. What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.
Tom Regan
#72. I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.
Ruth Reichl
#73. As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#74. We are what we are. That's what Raife said and it was true. They simply were. Animals were animals, humans were humans and wulvers were ... wulvers. They were all God's creatures.
Selena Kitt
#75. This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
Edwin Land
#76. Behind us are two or three dozen country people from the outlying towns. With them are cages of chicken and goats, sheep, even cattle. That's where we fit on market day. Between the executions and the livestock sales.
Kristen Simmons
#77. We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.
Ingrid Newkirk
#78. There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
Nathan Wolfe
#79. Are we animals because we're caged, or caged because we're animals? I think it's both.
Louis Ferrante
#80. PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
Bea Arthur
#81. Crocodiles are basically Triassic animals living in the present. Sharks are Triassic. So we know it has happened before.
Michael Crichton
#82. No one has entered since. We know about the Wombs too, though not where they are. Incarceron is efficient; it was designed to be. It doesn't waste dead matter, but recycles everything. In those cells it grows new inmates. Perhaps animals too.
Catherine Fisher
#83. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
Heinz R. Pagels
#84. We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.
Lora Leigh
#86. Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being
Robert Greene
#87. We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.
Jim Bouton
#88. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
Sylvia Plath
#89. We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#90. I believe we as humans are meant to have a bond and a connection with all of life itself, and our animals are trying to open our hearts to it.
Catherine Louise Birmingham
#92. We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?
Rajneesh
#93. We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.
Homer
#94. We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
Salman Rushdie
#95. Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. We have them and so do other animals. We must never forget this.
Marc Bekoff
#96. Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren't running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.
Elaina Marie
#97. Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
Bernadette Peters
#98. Trainers are the most passionate animal people in the world. We sacrifice our lives to make the lives of animals better.
Kyle Kittleson
#99. Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
Denise Mina
#100. You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.
Robert Winston
