Animal Quotes - Page 24

• If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Men, Historical

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• That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Failure, Long

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• It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Science, Light

  Heinz R. Pagels (1985). “Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time”, Simon & Schuster

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• The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Intellectual, Degrees

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Journey

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• We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.

  Sam Keen

  Forever, Heaven, Needs

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• I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women, against men, against animals. Against anything.

  Max Rushden

  Heart, Men, Glasses

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• In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Cooking, Dawn

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• Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

  Giordano Bruno

  Thinking, Roosters, Lions

  "Elements of Pantheism". Book by Paul Harrison, 1999.

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• Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

  Gary Taubes

  Exercise, Sloth, Body

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• Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Men

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• Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to be killed. That whole situation is really messed up for animals, growing up in those little cooped-up pens. I just don't think its worth eating that animal. I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Growing Up, Pain, Thinking

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• The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Growth, Foundation

  Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

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• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Men

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Men, World, Flesh

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Wisdom, Sleep, Cat

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• If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
  Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*

  Thom Yorke

  Sex, Laughing, Delight

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• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  Don Van Vliet

  Night, Desert, Looks

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• Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Development, Patterns, Plant

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.66, BenBella Books

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• The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  Gene Baur

  Believe, Agriculture, Vegetables

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.

  Howard Lyman

  People, Giving, Beef

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• There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Irrelevance, Vegetarian Diet, Long

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• Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

  William Henry Hudson

  Life, Art, Nature

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• We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Guardian, Planets

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