Quotes about animal
animal rights political
I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights. Sam Simon
animal entertainment
Animals are not here for our entertainment.
animal way protection
I'm not opposed to the protection of animals. But the best way to do that is to make sure some human being owns them. Rush Limbaugh
animal men race
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general. Thomas Malthus
animal roles cost
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. Tony Kushner
animal thinking artist
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. Tommy Lee
animal important battle
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed. Tom Wolfe
animal thinking america
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made. Tom Scholz
animal people important
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
animal suffering euthanasia
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans? Stephen Hawking
animal years imagination
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
animal humans human-beings
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? Stephen King
animal race shadow
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. Romain Rolland
animal men vegetarianism
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.
animal men thinking
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent. Sam Peckinpah
animal forever heaven
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for ... Sam Keen
animal mountain desert
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. Saadi
animal ifs
if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us. Rosa Bonheur
animal opportunity pigs
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal. Ron Reagan
animal income ongoing
With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income. Susan Sarandon
animal water chickens
Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot. Susan Orlean
animal different creatures
We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.
animal mind atheism
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much. Susan Ertz
animal our-love able
all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it. Stevie Smith
animal human-nature should
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
animal get-better ems
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. Steve Irwin
animal lines saving-animals
But I put my life on the line to save animals.
animal doe matter
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
animal humanity
Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them. Tim Allen
animal kingdoms totems
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. Thomas Szasz
animal people world
In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
animal plant
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? Steven Wright
animal intellectual reason
An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do. Steven Spielberg