Animal Quotes - Page 14

• We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

  Anna Sewell

  Dumb, Pet, Suffering

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.141, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

  Michael Jackson

  Movie, Children, Actors

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Economic Inequality, Political

  Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787

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• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

  Joan Jett

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Stay Strong

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• We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mammals, Born, Mankind

  "Animal Dreams". p. 118. Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Kind, Shots, Mating

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• Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Mean, Mutual Help, Important

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• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracy, Ears

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Blessing

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  Wendell Phillips

  Bravery, Accountability, Intuition

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• Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Work Out, Logic

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Men, Race

  Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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  It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Motivational, Strong, People

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• Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Men, Literature

  Letter to Alexander Pope, 29 Sept. 1725

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• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Destiny, Race, Vegetarianism

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man is the only animal that can be bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Vegetarianism, Boredom

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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• Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Slave, Made

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  Albert Einstein

  Compassion, Vegetarianism, People

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Laughing, Dignity

  "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.

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• Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Men, Political

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death, Education, Pain

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Self, Long

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

  Peter Kay

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Vegetarianism, Joy, Pet

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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