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Quotes About Animals

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?
~ Ayn Rand
Non avere paura della tempesta, Michelle. Ce ne saranno ancora tante nella tua vita, qualcuna anche nella mia. Abbiamo paura della natura irata, come tutti gli animali. soltanto che noi ci scriviamo sopra poesie.
~ Stefano Benni
He came over last night. He'd been out chasing foxes with his friends, and you know what he and the boys are like when they do the werewolf thing. The women, the drinking, and the farm animals." "Feeding on raw steak before he went out didn't curb the need to eat sheep?
~ Stephanie Rowe
Colonel Quaritch likes to welcome newcomers to Pandora with a scary depiction of its dangerous life forms, in plants, the animals, the natives, all of which, according him, want nothing more than to kill humans. But Pandora would be a ferociously hazardous place eve without any life forms at all
~ Stephen Baxter
But in that space were crammed humans, not animals.
~ Stephen Baxter
Anaximander, a friend and possibly a student of Thales, argued that since human infants are helpless at birth, if the first human had somehow appeared on earth as an infant, it would not have survived. In what may have been humanity's first inkling of evolution, people, Anaximander reasoned, must therefore have evolved from other animals whose young are hardier.
~ Stephen Hawking
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
~ Stephen King
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.
~ Stephen King
Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.
~ Stephen King
Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight.
~ Stephen King
Everyone is taught that angels have wings - the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.
~ Jury Nel
If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world
~ Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
I've always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.
~ Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
~ Sigmund Freud
I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
~ Gilda Radner
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
~ Natalie Portman
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
~ Cole Porter
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
~ Dick Dale
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals
~ Moby
You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.
~ Pat Derby
I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
~ Kirsty Gallacher
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
~ Immanuel Kant