Animal Quotes - Page 21

• For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

  Cleveland Amory

  Inspirational, Motivational, Home

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

  H. G. Wells

  Boys, Pigs, Vegetarianism

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.176, H. G. Wells

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• Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier.
  Each animal is an end in itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Evolution, Ends

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Sometimes, Minimalist

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Men

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• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Life, Leadership

  Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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• We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

  Philip Wollen

  Mass Extinction, Years, Two

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• A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

  Plato

  Cute, Dog, Soul

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• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

  Shania Twain

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Horse

  "Shania Twain Q+A, Part 1: New life in Las Vegas, conquering fears of singing again". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
  If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
  Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Nature, Spring, Knowing

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, Compassion, Humanity

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• A house is not a home until it has a dog.

  Gerald Durrell

  Family, Dog, Home

  Gerald Durrell (1995). “Best dog stories”

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• Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Motivational, Idyllic

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• Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Expression, Knowing

  "The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

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• If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

  Chief Seattle

  Loneliness, Son, Men

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• I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Beauty, Men, Giving

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• It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

  Haile Selassie

  Compassion, Pet, Wicked

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• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  H. G. Wells

  Nature, Children, Men

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.238, Broadview Press

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• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Passion, Vegetarianism

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• Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Dog, Pet

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• If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.

  L. David Mech

  Hater, Nature, Attitude

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