Quotes About Animals

Ironically, the study of animal cognition not only raises the esteem in which we hold other species, but also teaches us not to overestimate our own mental complexity. We

Para sobrellevar la pérdida, y aliviar nuestro propio terror a la mortalidad, a menudo contemplamos la muerte como una transición a otra vida. No tenemos evidencia de esta notable innovación mental en ningún otro animal.

large-scale breeding experiments.

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —Charles Darwin (1871)

Charles Darwin's well-known observation that the mental difference between humans and other animals is one of degree rather than kind.

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.

La humanidad va a pasar un mal rato el día del juicio final, cuando tenga que rendir cuentas de lo que ha estado haciendo, sobre todo a partir del siglo XX, con los animales para carne, particularmente con los terneros, los cerdos y los pollos, las prinicipales víctimas de la ganadería intensiva.

Maxime estaba orgulloso de su oficio, pero también sentía cierta vergûenza: "Me disgusta la idea de que toda esta felicidad que les doy a mis animales vaya a parar bajo un cuchillo. Me da la impresión de que los traiciono; pero, por otro lado, no sé hacer nada más y no me queda más remedio que ganarme la vida".

A nuestra especie no le queda más remedio que cambiar de actitud: efectivamente, como ya lo decía San Francisco de Asís, los animales son hermanos nuestros; vamos a tener que darles otro trato. Nada podrá detener esa revolución de mentalidad que ya está en marcha.

Más vale ser un animal de un compañia que un animal para carne.

Solo estamos en la edad de piedra del conocimiento de los animales y nuestra ignorancia al respecto sigue siendo enciclopédica. Por no mencionar los prejuicios ancestrales.

Papá adoraba a los animales (...) eso es algo que me ha legado, lo mismo que el amor a Italia, a la literatura o a la historia de las civilizaciones. Cierto es que su animalofilia no le privaba de ponerse hasta arriba de asados, filetes o salchichas.

Cuando los animales de carne van, con paso lento por el pasillo que los conduce a su espantoso destino, con el miedo en las entrañas, el pelo erizado y el culo lleno de mierda, notamos más que nunca el parentesco y el parecido que tienen con nosotros. Miran la muerte con los mismos ojos.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any.

As the animal trundled toward him, Seth backed away. Weren't animals supposed to flee from humans? Maybe it had rabies. Or maybe it just hadn't seen him. After all, he was wearing a camouflage shirt.

Rollan glanced at Meilin and her panda. "What's your power going to be? Cuddling?" Meilin's face was pure ice. For a moment her lips trembled, but after that the anger only touched her eyes. She held out her arm and in a flash Jhi became a design on the back of her hand. She turned and stormed away.

You talk about hunger and pain as if they are forces which can't be resisted. Anything is acceptable, as long as the hunger made you do it-remove our comforts, and we become animals.

People are discord," Syl said. "What does that mean?" "You all act differently and think differently. Nothing else is like that—animals act alike (...) There's harmony in that. But not in you—it seems that no two of you can agree on anything. All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators." "But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play.

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny

None of the brute creation requires more than Food and Shelter