Animal Quotes - Page 6

• I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

  Gary Larson

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Curiosity, Suffering, May

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• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence of centuries. It is easy to picture to oneself the effects of this impact upon the Earth. The axis and the motion of rotation changed; the seas abandoning their old position to throw themselves toward the new equator; a large part of men and animals drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violent tremor imparted to the terrestrial globe.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Men, Axes

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• With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Children, Relief, Problem

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• This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Science, Action, Problem

  "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System". Book by Charles Sherrington (p. 2), 1947.

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• All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Two, Differences

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• What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?

  Peter Singer

  Law, Capacity, Members

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• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Exercise, Psychology, May

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• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  Walter Lang

  Fall, Ghouls, Law

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• During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

  Lorenz Oken

  Science, Class, Development

  Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.491

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• Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dog, Cat, Sea

  "Lobsters and Lies" by Madeleine Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.

  Jeff Stilson

  Funny, Men, Thinking

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• I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

  John Elway

  Football, Nfl, Different

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• I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Running, Littles, Faces

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Generations, Extinction, Different

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• My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

  Peter Gay

  Assumption, Humans, Human Animal

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• Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

  Gerald Durrell

  Love You, Wife, Pet

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• To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

  Louis Leakey

  Order, Suffering, May

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• To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

  Rex Stout

  Believe, Men, Decision

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• I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

  Wayne Pacelle

  Growing Up, Hands, Pet

  "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt". Book by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

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• The dog is the god of frolic.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, War, Pet

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Pain, Men

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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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, Rights, Vegetarianism

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

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