Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

George Toups

You have to take care of these animals 365 days of the year. It's not just a Monday through Friday type of job.

David Starr Jordan

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

David Lynch

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

Corey Feldman

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

Corey Feldman

I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

Confucius

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

Andy Lally

The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.

Thomas Jefferson

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Thomas Gage

No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!

Thomas Becket

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Viggo Mortensen

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

Veronica Roth

Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.

Veronica Roth

Faction before blood.

Veronica Roth

My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

Susie Bright

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Susan Mitchell

There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.