Animal Quotes And Sayings

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“If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.” 
– James Thurber

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
– James Anthony Froude

“Everyone’s pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.”
– Jean Cocteau

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” 
– Jean Cocteau

“Animals are not humans with reduced capacities. They have their own capacities, their own spectrum of aptitudes and behaviors.”
– Jean Kazez

“What do you see when you look at an animal? A kindred spirit, a creature much like you; but possibly, the very next moment, a beast, a stranger, just an animal. Animals are like those pictures that we see as one thing and then another; the duck that suddenly becomes a rabbit; the wine glass that’s also an old woman in profile. Now the pig is a fellow creature, like Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web. Now he’s pork.”
– Jean Kazez

“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 another thing that separates us from animals. We aren’t afraid of vacuum cleaners.”
– Jeff Stilson

“Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.”
– Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.” 
– Joe Gores

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
– John Berry

“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”
– John Muir

“A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.” 
– Josh Billings

“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.”
– Kenneth Grahame

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” 
– Mahatma Gandhi

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.”
– Maimonides

“Animals are not property or “things” but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.”
– Marc Bekoff

“Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.”
– Marc D. Hauser

“In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man’s, I find the result humiliating to me.”
– Mark Twain

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”
– Mark Twain

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
– Martin Buber

“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” 
– Mary Bly

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike.”
– Matthew Scully

“The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.”
– Michael Friedman

“It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.”
– Mickey Rivers 

“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

“Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.”
– Milan Kundera

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.” 
– Montaigne

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