Animals Quotes

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

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 meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

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

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

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

Aldous Huxley

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle