Quotes About Animals

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people

Virtually all animals—single-celled organisms as well as humans—are conditioned to react in predictable ways, some of which we can modify and some of which are more difficult to change.

On gizzards of gulls, hawks and owls, The heat of lizards, spurs of fowls, Bones of pigs, air-sacs of eagles, Moaning dingos, barking beagles; Sleek opossums, prickly hedgehogs, Buffaloes, dormice, wolves and dogs

Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?

In the first place, sensation (aisthesis) is a corporeal process which we have in common with animals, and in which the impression of an exterior object is transmitted to the soul. By means of this process, an image (phantasia) of the object is produced in the soul, or more precisely in the guiding part (hegemonikon) of the soul

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.

'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.

Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail.

Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists have run experiments in cats in a dark environment with a strobe so it can only see still images - and those cats' visual systems actually underdevelop. So motion is important, but what is the algorithm?

The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.

I always wanted to open an old peoples home and an animal shelter.

I have a pooper-scooper, a long-handled thing with a little shovel.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Wolves and people were not natural enemies. The humans' relationship with other animals established their rivalry with wolves.