Animals Quotes

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

A naked man on a naked horse is a fine spectacle. I had no idea how well the two animals suited each other.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life.

I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.

There is continuity between humans and other animals in their emotional lives; there are transitional stages among species, not large gaps; and the differences among many animals are differences in degree rather than in kind

That climate acts in main part indirectly by favouring other species, we clearly see in the prodigious number of plants which in our gardens can perfectly well endure our climate, but which never become naturalised, for they cannot compete with our native plants nor resist destruction by our native animals.

I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.

The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.