Animals
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
Author: Ricky GervaisTopics: Animals, Equals, Family, Famous, Meaningful, Please, Superiors
The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Animals, Famous, Idea, Offensive, Smell
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Animals, Beware, Famous, Human Nature, Psychology, Revenge, Sociology
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife’s ear.
Author: J. B. MortonTopics: Animals, Disadvantages, Famous, Fool, Moment, Wife
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourish faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Air, Animals, Decisions, Essential, Famous, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Life, Political, Troubles
I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores. Could you request that?
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Animals, Carnivores, Eco-friendly, Environmental, Famous, Friendly, Thinking
Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Almost, Animals, Painful, Scarcely, Seeming
To man, alone among the animals, has been given the awful privilege of reason. Man, with his brain, can penetrate the intoxicating show of things and look upon the universe brazen with indifference toward him and his dreams.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Animals, Indifference, Reason, Universe
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Account, Animals, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Animal, Animals, Fought, Ways, Wild
However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Animals, Elements, Happy, Nature, Stronger, Weather
Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature – for example, the peacock’s tail.
Author: Gad SaadTopics: Advertisement, Animals, Attractiveness, Behavior, Feature, Highlight, Market, Mating, Mating Strategies, Sexual Selection, Signal, Strategies, Visual Signals
Actually, I don’t like dogs. I’m from Morocco, and people there don’t like animals.
Author: Gad ElmalehTopics: Animals, Dislike, Dogs, Famous, People
1925’s ‘The Lost World’ is… really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Animals, Classics, Dinosaurs, Everything, Famous, Fossil-hunters, Fragmentary footage
The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Animals, Famous, Heart, Meaningful, Measured, Purity, Quickly
I hate to witness animals in captivity – or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it’s a loss of what they are.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Animals, Caged, Captivity, Circus, Elephant, Famous, Hate, Streets, Witness
I soon saw why humans prefer to draw an arbitrary line between themselves and other animals. Had humans been used as these animals were used the only appropriate descriptive word would have been ’torture.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Animals, Arbitrary, Famous, Human, Lines, Torture
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Animals, Beneficence, Creation, Creature, Cruelty, Duty, Famous, God, Goodness, Imitating, Inspirational, Meaningful, Menifested, Moral, Persecution, Revenge, Violation
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Animals, Boredom, Capacity, Famous, Human Beings
It was tough going. His world was in the grips of the last Ice Age. In Southern Africa it was drier than now, water was difficult to obtain and so were animals.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Animals, Famous, Scarcity, Tough times, Water, World
Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Animals, Dark, Famous, Imperfect, Man, Never, Trustworthy
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
Author: Rudyard KiplingTopics: Animals, Attend, Beloved, Wild
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Topics: Acceptance, Animals, Animated, Every Day, Every man, Experiences, Famous, Fashion, Fashion Preference, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Simply, Sincere
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Animals, Consolation, Famous, Foolish, Grief, Inspirational, Irrational, Meaningful, Reason, Virtue
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Animals, Black cat, Cross, Famous, Going, Path, Signifies, Somewhere
I’m not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Animals, Famous, Vegetarian
I’m very involved with PETA – People for Ethical Treatment of Animals – and Greenpeace and a lot of women’s shelter and clothing giveaways.
Author: PinkTopics: Animals, Famous, Life, Meaningful, People, Shelter
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.
Author: PinkTopics: Animals, Creatures, Earth, Fake, Famous, Feelings, Humans, Joke, Loyal, Purest, Smarter, Spirits, World
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Author: Rabindranath TagoreTopics: Animals, Earth, Famous, Silence, Singing, Water
The perfect happiness of men on the earth (if it ever comes) will not be a flat and solid thing, like the satisfaction of animals. It will be an exact and perilous balance; like that of a desperate romance. Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Adventures, Animals, Balance, Doubt, Faith, Famous, Happiness, Inspirational, Romance, Satisfaction
I love long-range rifle shooting. I like anything that deals with precision. I also find that with archery. On my ranch, I have my own range with 3-D targets of animals and hay bales from different distances.
Author: Paul WalkerTopics: Animals, Different, distances, Famous, Love, Meaningful
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because the government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.
Author: Paul HarveyTopics: Animals, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Meaningful
When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He’s the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Animals, Around, Famous, Fishing, Lovers, Meaningful, Younger
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I’d just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Animals, Famous, House, Meaningful, Realized, Wanted
Yes, I’ve kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that’s it. I don’t go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Animals, Anyone, Famous, Guys, Home, Meaningful, Monkey
Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Animal Welfare, Animals, Ethical Concerns, Famous, Friends, Inspirational, Personal choice
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Animal rights, Animals, Famous, Feelings, Possession, Soul, Will
Topics: Animals, Hold, Immature, Liberty, Men, Ruined
Any man who does not like dogs and wants them about, does not deserve to be in the White House.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Animals, Deserving, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lightning, Like, Male friends, Meaningful, White
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Allegorical Nature, Animals, Animals farm, Dominance, Exert control, Famous, Human Exploitation, Man
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Animals, Animals farm, Comrades, Enemies, Famous, Inspirational
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Animals, Equality, Famous
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Author: BuddhaTopics: Animals, Overtaking, Past, Skin
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Animals, Commonest, Faithful, Famous, God, Greatest, Meaningful
Man is an experiment, the other animals are another experiment. Time will show whether they were worth the trouble.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Animals, Famous, Man, Meaningful
If puss and dog can get together, why can’t we love one another?
Author: Bob MarleyTopics: Animals, Another, Famous, Life, Love, Together
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Animals, Famous, Greatness, Judge, Meaningful, Moral, Nation, Treated
It’s part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Animal, Animals, Famous, Human, Inspirational, Meaningful, Personalities, Talents.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
Author: Bertrand RussellTopics: Animals, Civilized, Philosophy, Practical, Theoretical, World
A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living
Author: Ambrose BierceTopics: Acceptance, Animals, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Habit, Inspirational, Life, Little Things, Live, Living, Meaningful
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans
Author: Alexander the GreatTopics: Animals, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, God, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Revenge, Revolution
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dog
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Animals, Dogs, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Man, Meaningful, Popularity, Positive Mindset
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also
Author: Albert SchweitzerTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Animal, Animals, Answering, Ethic, Ethical boundaries, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats
Author: Albert SchweitzerTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Animals, Category, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Live, Living, Music
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Author: Leonardo da VinciTopics: Animal rights, Animals, Comparision, Man, Meaningful Impact
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Animals, Appetite, Cruel, Disheartening, Famous, Food, Killing, Unnecessary