Animals Quotes
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.Erving Goffman
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.Native American
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.Henrik Ibsen
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to a mate with, beat, run away from, and rocks.Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.Arnold Toynbee
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals.Will Rogers
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.George Orwell
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.Beaumarchis
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.H. L. Mencken
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
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, Black Beauty, 1877
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.Plato
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.George Eliot
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.Loren
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.Alexander Graham Bell
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.Alfred Victor Vigny
