Animal Quotes - Page 29

• I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.

  Jennie Garth

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

  Aviva Cantor

  Hunting, Lynching, People

  "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.

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• English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.

  Tomson Highway

  Nature, Rocks, Tree

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• Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Names, Progress

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• All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

  Alec Baldwin

  Dreary

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• We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Crazy, Home

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• I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke.

  Pink

  Thinking, Fake, Feelings

  "P!nk Tells Circus, ‘Pack Your Trunks!’". PETA Interview, www.peta2.com. July 18, 2011.

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• It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Mma, Survival

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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• No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Practice, Groups, Individual

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• I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

  Bindi Irwin

  Trying, Earth, Messages

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• Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

  Bindi Irwin

  Fall, House, Bricks

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• As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

  Martha Stewart

  Mother, Pet, Faces

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• Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

  Edward Hoagland

  Men, Risk, Different

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves. Here they are witnesses, companions to the spirit, and as vulnerably mortal as human beings. Socially and politically alert, lamenting and celebrating, Barrington's passionate poems inscribe the broad range of her affections.

  Mark Doty

  Horse, Soul, Passionate

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• The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  Garrett Hardin

  Believe, Men, Tragedy

  "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968

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• Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

  Jared Diamond

  Land, Literature, World

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• But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

  Jared Diamond

  Children, Real, Heart

  "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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• All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

  Francis Galton

  Men, Bystanders, Males

  Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.51, Routledge

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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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• Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

  Alex Pacheco

  Arson, Causes, Crime

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• I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).

  Erik Satie

  Eggs, White, Water

  "Erik Satie". Book by Rollo H. Myers, New York: Dover, p.135, 1968.

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• Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

  Paula Sharp

  Loneliness, Grief, Moving

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

  Chanakya

  Rain, Ocean, Reality

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• Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .

  Ursula Goodenough

  Understanding, Religion, Dynamics

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews.

  Alec Reid

  Reality, Community, Nazi

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