Fur Quotes

• Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Beautiful, Animal, Humanity

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• There's always a way to wear fur.

  Anna Wintour

  Way

  "The September Issue". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

  Rue McClanahan

  Vegetarian, Vegan, Used

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• My favorite fur is wild acrylic.

  Linda Palmer

  Clothes, My Favorite, Materials

  Linda Palmer (2005). “Love Her to Death”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Fake, Chic

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• I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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• Divas need their furs!

  Martha Reeves

  Needs

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• Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humility, Pride

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• We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

  River Phoenix

  Selfish, Cutting, Animal

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• I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

  Christy Turlington

  Naked

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Murder, Expensive

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• Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Real, Animal, Simple

  "Natalie Imbruglia Speaks Out Against Fur in New PETA Video" by Anne Clark, www.peta.org.uk. September 9, 2010.

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• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fashion, Animal, Pet

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• Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

  Gene Tierney

  Car, Weakness, Gems

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

  Gemma Arterton

  Cat, Coats, Ends

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• It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Jewels, Wit

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• I would never wear fur.

  Kristen Wiig

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• I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

  Lance Loud

  School, Antiques, Juniors

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• A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.

  Seymour Hicks

  Sex, Men, Wife

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

  Dominique Swain

  Animal, Thinking, Should

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. February 2007.

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• As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

  Smokey Robinson

  Car, Stuff, Materialistic

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  We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fighting, Compassion, Animal

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• I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  Esther Dyson

  Nice, Eyebrows, Killers

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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