Animal Quotes - Page 13

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

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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

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• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Science, Feelings

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• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, House, Mind

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• The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

  Henry Beston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Jobs, Science

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• Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Long Ago, World

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• A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Boys, Pigs

  Washingtonian magazine, August 01, 1986.

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Death, Sports, Humorous

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hurt, Humble, Vegetarianism

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Dog, Evil

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

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• There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

  Ernest Holmes

  God, Love Life, Men

  "Living the Science of Mind".

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Compassion

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• Be a good example and a positive ambassador for vegan living, and be patient and understanding with people who aren't vegan. Support any move non-vegans make away from animal consumption toward plant-based eating. Nurture even small positive steps, as these tend to empower people and build momentum toward bigger steps.

  Gene Baur

  Moving, People, Empowering

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Self, Humanity

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• 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

  Simple, Hands, Tools

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.4

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Grandchildren, Careers, Carbon Cycle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. October 1968.

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• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hate

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• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Friendship, Dog

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

  James Cameron

  Nice, People, Quality

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• 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

  Night, Guy, Rooms

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• The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Differences, Literature, Praying

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• Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Home, Science, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Men, Pet

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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