Animals Quotes: Creatures of Wisdom and Inspiration

"Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"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, Philosopher

"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"My favorite animal is steak"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together"

John Gay, Poet

"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner"

Jon Porter, Politician

"A committee is an animal with four back legs"

John Le Carre, Author

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears"

Juliette G. Low

"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem"

William Petersen, Actor

"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom"

Richard Dooling, Novelist

"If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions"

Mark Twain, Author

"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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