Animals Quotes

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

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

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

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition

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

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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)

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