Animal Life Quotes - Page 2

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Men, Compassion

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• I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Discovery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

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• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Dog, Religious, Horse

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Life, Animal, Light

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  Pythagoras

  Mother, Sorry, Philosophical

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• Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Sports, Philosophical, Animal

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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• Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

  Matt Groening

  Loneliness, Thinking, Environment

  "The Simpsons. Season 11. Faith Off". TV Series, 2000.

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• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Giving, Cameras

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• My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Animal, Life Is

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, 1923.

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• I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Vivisection, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

  Christiaan Barnard (1979). “The best medicine”

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