898 quotes found
“As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.”
“One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of ...”
“We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We are not very skilled at survival without clothing or tools. Our feet are soft, our skin is easily co...”
“A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charge...”
“The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.”
“This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.”
“I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to los...”
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in...”
“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
“Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.”
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the gla...”
“Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”
“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”
“Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.”
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth ...”
