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Animals Quotes


"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."


"It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."


"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do."


"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper."


"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."


"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."


"I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal."


"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."


"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."


"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"


"As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment."


"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."


"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."


"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."


"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"


"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."


"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"


"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."


"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."


"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."


"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live."


"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."


"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."


"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."


"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."


"Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to."


"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."


"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."


"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."


"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."


"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."


"You're a good example of why some animals eat their young."


"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
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