Top Animal Quotes Collection - Page 47

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Image of Paul McCartney
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
- Paul McCartney
Collection: Animal
Image of John Adams
This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!
- John Adams
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Dave Barry
One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Animal
Image of Dale Jamieson
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.
- Dale Jamieson
Collection: Animal
Image of George MacDonald
God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Animal
Image of Robin McKinley
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)
- Robin McKinley
Collection: Animal
Image of H. P. Lovecraft
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Collection: Animal
Image of Nelson Mandela
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Animal
Image of Rob Lowe
Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."
- Rob Lowe
Collection: Animal
Image of Max Lucado
Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Animal
Image of Yann Martel
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Animal
Image of Nelson Mandela
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Animal
Image of Rachel Maddow
If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: Animal
Image of Dale Jamieson
The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.
- Dale Jamieson
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Yann Martel
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Ernest Sosa
Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.
- Ernest Sosa
Collection: Animal
Image of H. L. Mencken
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Wangari Maathai
We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can.
- Wangari Maathai
Collection: Animal
Image of Demetri Martin
When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads.
- Demetri Martin
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Martin Luther
Animals are footprints of God.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Animal
Image of Shirley MacLaine
Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.
- Shirley MacLaine
Collection: Animal
Image of Yann Martel
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Animal
Image of Yann Martel
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Animal
Image of Shirley MacLaine
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
- Shirley MacLaine
Collection: Animal
Image of Dave Barry
Orangutan are very weird animals but they look very soulful.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Animal
Image of Rose Macaulay
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
- Rose Macaulay
Collection: Animal
Image of Ramana Maharshi
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
- Ramana Maharshi
Collection: Animal
Image of Bill Maher
There were two Republican responses to the State of the Union. So if you watched the whole night, it was kind of evolution in reverse. You have Obama, then Paul Ryan, and then Michele Bachmann. Then Animal Planet had a squirrel monkey give his take.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Animal
Image of Terence McKenna
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Animal
Image of Dale Jamieson
Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.
- Dale Jamieson
Collection: Animal
Image of Steve Martin
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
Collection: Animal