Top Animal Quotes Collection - Page 2
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.Collection: Animal
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.Collection: Animal
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.Collection: Animal
Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than usCollection: Animal
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planetCollection: Animal
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.Collection: Animal
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eatCollection: Animal
Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.Collection: Animal
Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched in our moral community. Accepting the notion of ‘animal guardian’ to replace ‘pet owner’ will go a long way towards making the lives of our companions much better and richer.Collection: Animal
It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.Collection: Animal
Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.Collection: Animal
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.Collection: Animal
In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.Collection: Animal
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.Collection: Animal
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.Collection: Animal
We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.Collection: Animal
We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.Collection: Animal
We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.Collection: Animal
We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.Collection: Animal
History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.Collection: Animal
A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.Collection: Animal
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.Collection: Animal
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!Collection: Animal
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.Collection: Animal
Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.Collection: Animal
I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.Collection: Animal
Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.Collection: Animal
Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!Collection: Animal
Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.Collection: Animal
"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.Collection: Animal
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.Collection: Animal
When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.Collection: Animal
I'm turned on by diversity. I'm turned on by things that are different. I like different animals, I like different ways of travel, and I like different people.Collection: Animal
All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.Collection: Animal
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.Collection: Animal
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.Collection: Animal
Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.Collection: Animal
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.Collection: Animal
Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.Collection: Animal
I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.Collection: Animal
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.Collection: Animal
I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.Collection: Animal
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.Collection: Animal
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.Collection: Animal
It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.Collection: Animal
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.Collection: Animal
The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.Collection: Animal
Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.Collection: Animal
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.Collection: Animal