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

"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

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

Anatole France, Novelist

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"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

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"Man is by nature a political animal"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"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

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

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

"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

"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case"

John Rawls, Educator

"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

"A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights"

Lance Morrow

"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

"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

"God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man"

Arthur Young, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Jose Rizal, Writer

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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

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

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"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"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content"

Paul Valery, Poet

"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

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

Diogenes, Philosopher

"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

"My favorite animal is steak"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"A committee is an animal with four back legs"

John Le Carre, Author

"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"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

"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

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