Quotes About Animals

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

One cat just leads to another.

Por supuesto que añoraba todo eso con los ojos resecos porque los animales de ciudad no lloran.

The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.

The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals.

Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least near villages. (In fact, it's safe to say that meat consumption has fluctuated greatly throughout history and throughout the world, and that, with very few exceptions, until recently it was mostly eaten occasionally.)

Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: "Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy."40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin's theory itself was the conviction of man's mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn't trust it.

A 1655 book by English physician Thomas Muffett advocated torturing animals before slaughter to make them more tender as food. The book said animals should be killed slowly and painfully, with "fear dissolving the hardest parts.

Humans, after all, weren't actively hostile toward most of the species we'd made extinct over the millennia of our ascendance; they simply weren't part of our design. The same could turn out to be true of superintelligent machines, which would stand in a similar kind of relationship to us as we ourselves did to the animals we bred for food, or the ones who fared little better for all that they had no direct dealings with us at all.

Para nosotros ningún momento es completo en sí mismo. Cada momento se ve adulterado, empañado por lo que recordamos que ha sido y lo que anticipamos que será. En cada momento de nuestra vida la flecha del tiempo nos mantiene inocentes y moribundos, y por eso creemos que somos superiores a los demás animales.

Incluso fui vegetariano estricto durante un tiempo y, moralmente hablando, debería seguir siéndolo: es la única posición moral coherente con respecto a los animales. Sin embargo, aunque no soy tan malo como podría ser, tampoco soy tan bueno como debería.

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.