Animal Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.148, University of Iowa Press

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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heart, Men, Vegetarianism

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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• All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

  George Orwell

  Men, Enemy, Comrade

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Men

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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  If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiring, Dog, Silly

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• When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

  Marv Levy

  Morning, Fun, Father

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Compassion, Vegetarianism, Vegan Food

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

  James Herriot

  Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Hunting, Games

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  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  Pythagoras

  Health, Men, Vegetarianism

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• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Peace, Heart

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Peace, Nature

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Soul, Pet, Sound

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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  We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fighting, Compassion, Circles

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• Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Money, Food, Creating

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• You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Thinking, Long

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Two, Legs, Four

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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• We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Taken, Fate, Men

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• ...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Pet, Puppy

  Rudyard Kipling (2005). “The Complete Children's Short Stories”, p.356, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Pet, Dining

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 17, 2010

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