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Quotes About Animal

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
~ George Orwell, Animal Farm
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
~ George Herbert Mead
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
~ Herbert Spencer
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.
~ Gene Baur
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
~ Jay Griffiths
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
~ Peter Kropotkin
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
~ Jilly Cooper
An elephant says to a camel, 'Why are your boobs on your back?' The camel says, 'That's rich, coming from someone with a dick on his face.
~ Jim Cartwright
Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.
~ Jim Corbett
The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure.
~ Ann Rule
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
~ Ann Veneman
Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp
~ Anna Sewell
All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.
~ AnnaLynne McCord
Every artificially inseminated pig is a blow to the face of Imperialist warmongers.
~ Anne Applebaum
Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?" "A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet." "And that will work?" "Only if he needs to pee.
~ Anne Bishop
Your voice I know. It had me terrified. When I hear it in dreams, from time to time all my life, it sounds like a taunt—but dreams distort sound, for they send it over many waters. During these hard days, I, a pilgrim, am giving my consideration to this. I trudge along the bottom of the river and the questioning goes on in me. What are we made of but hunger and rage? His heels rise and fall in front of me. How surprised I am to be entangled in the knowledge of some other animal.
~ Anne Carson
Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.
~ Anne Carson
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.
~ Anonymous
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
~ Louis Leakey
I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Most livestock—an estimated 99% in America, 74% around the world—comes from factory farms.
~ Fareed Zakaria
A sexualidade é uma ética animal, a primeira e a mais instintiva das éticas.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The love of absurdity and paradox is the animal happiness of the sad.
~ Fernando Pessoa