Animals Quotes

"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

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

Paul Valery, Poet

"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

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

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"My music is best understood by children and animals"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals"

James Thurber, Comedian

"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

John Cleese, Actor

"Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals"

Malcolm X, Activist

"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

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