898 quotes found
“Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!”
“The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it stayed while the rain beat on the walls and the fire sank down and the night wearing slowly along ...”
“Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfor...”
“You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.”
“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the op...”
“There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet--it's the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering compan...”
“Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.”
“Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh, it made me e...”
“God Please help Man find his lost Freedom faster. So that the rest of the creatures on earth who deserve it more can have theirs back.”
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck a...”
“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said,Are innocent and fathomlessAnd when I look at them I seeThat they are not aware of meAnd oh I find and oh I blessA comfort in this emptinessThey only see me w...”
“Behind us are two or three dozen country people from the outlying towns. With them are cages of chicken and goats, sheep, even cattle. Thats where we fit on market day. Between the executions and t...”
“Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.”
“Perhaps we should rejoice that peoples emotions arent designed for the good of the group. Often the best way to benefit ones group is to displace, subjugate, or annihilate the group next door. Ants...”
“As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrasesdoublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'that he embedded in our...”
“Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals”
“Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals”
“Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals”
“Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living beings. Therein lies fulfillment. All men are kin. They are of the same likeness, the same build, mol...”
“the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.”
