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  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

  George Orwell

  Men, Pigs, Pet

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945)

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• I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

  Rumi

  Death, Wisdom, Fear

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Men, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.246

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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• I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, Rights, Imagination

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape

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• No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

  George Orwell

  Causes, Farms, Killing Animals

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man is a reasoning Animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Law, Reasoning

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Letter XLI: On the god within us, line 8,

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• Support your right to arm bears.

  Cleveland Amory

  Support, Pet, Arms

  Cleveland Amory (1974). “Man Kind?: Our Incredible War on Wildlife”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Psychology, Study

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.26, Routledge

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  The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Grieving

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, Oxygen

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Vegan

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• Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

  Diogenes

  Silly, Men, Intelligent

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Men, Favors

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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

  Rue McClanahan

  Fashion, Pet, Fur

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• Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Vegan Food

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Race, Giving

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• So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?

  Peter Singer

  Adults, Use, Argument

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Life, Science, Stones

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• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Eternal Love, Half

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Anna Sewell

  Kindness, Men, People

  Anna Sewell (2011). “Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.51, Penguin

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• Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Humanity

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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