Animal Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
– Dalai Lama

“I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.”
– David Beard

“Animals are less sensitive than human beings because the, living only in the present, lack the reflection on the past and future that plays so great a role in the subjective lives of people; yet where physical pain is involved, we ought to take the greatest care not to cause needless anguish to animals.”
– David Fraser

“Even as we try to think objectively about what animals are like, we are burdened with the need to justify our moral relations with them. We kill animals for food; we use them as experimental subjects in laboratories; we exploit them as sources of raw materials such as leather and wool; we keep them as work animals–the list goes on and on. These practices are to our advantage, and we intend to continue them. Thus, when we think about what the animals are like, we are motivated to conceive of them in ways that are compatible with treating them in these ways. If animals are conceived as intelligent, sensitive beings, these ways of treating them might seem monstrous. So humans have reason to resist thinking of them as intelligent or sensitive.”
– David Inglis

“Zoos teach us that animals are like machine parts: separable, replaceable, interchangeable. They teach us that there is no web of life, that you can remove one part and put it into a box and still have that part. But that is all wrong…. Zoos teach us implicitly that animals need to be managed, that they can’t survive without us. They are our dependents, not our teachers, our neighbors, our betters, our equals, our friends, our gods. They are ours. We must assume the interspecies version of the white man’s burden, and out of the goodness of our hearts we must benevolently control their lives. We must “rescue them from the wild.”
– Derrick Jensen

“Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.”
– Dr Louis J.Camuti

“My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet.” 
– Edith Wharton

“Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals love them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.”
– Edwin Way Teale

“The dog represents all that is best in man.” 
– Etienne Charlet

“Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled” 
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“And God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
– Genesis 1:26

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That’s the essence of inhumanity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” 
– George Ellio

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”
– George Orwell

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
– George Orwell

“Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing—not unlike friends and wives.”
– Gerald Durrell

“It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.”
– Haile Selassie

“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.” 
– Hazel Nicholson

“The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.”
– Hebrew Proverb

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… In a world older and more complete than ours they move 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, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
– Henry Beston

“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”
– Hippocrates

“I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” 
– Hippolyte Taine

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” 
– Immanual Kant

“To insult someone we call him “bestial.”  For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult. 
– Isaac Asimov

“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

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