Animal Quotes - Page 24

• It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Home, Race, Civilization

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• You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

  Jake LaMotta

  Sex, Nice, Fighting

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• The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all his energies, sexual or others; he is not in any fight. Why fight with your own energies? Love them, rejoice in them, and help them to transcend the lower forms, the animal forms. Let them move from the body towards the turiya, the fourth.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Fighting, Energy

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• Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dog, Sex, Believe

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• Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sex, Phones

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• Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pet, Slavery, Ownership

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• If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Vegetarianism

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• For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Religious, Lying

  Stanley Coren (2008). “The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Feet, Mind

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• As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Cat, Humanity

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• Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

  John Weitz

  Cat, Humanity, Slim

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• If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.

  Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

  Cat, Humanity, Pet

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• The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

  Jamie Fellner

  People, United States, Way

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• The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

  Joel Garreau

  Law, Training, Temperature

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• Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Kindness, World

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• I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

  Robert Goolrick

  Kissing, Thinking, Divine

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.109, Algonquin Books

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• And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

  Plato

  Children, Educational, Character

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• Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.

  Richard D. Ryder

  Strong, Clever, Philosophical

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• Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

  Gautama Buddha

  Real, Commitment, Discipline

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• Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Stanley Coren

  Friendship, Dog, Two

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• The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

  Madame de Stael

  Funny, Sarcastic, Dog

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• Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

  Martin Wolf

  Space, Diversity, Humanity

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• Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under.

  Deirdre Imus

  America, Environment, Factories

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• It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and death. Consider this: If your food had a face or a mother (or comes from something that did), then it also has varying amounts of artery-clogging, plaque-plugging, and cholesterol-hiking animal protein, animal cholesterol, and animal fat. These substances are the building blocks of the chronic diseases that plague Western society.

  Rip Esselstyn

  Mother, Block, Hiking

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• Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.

  Michael Greger

  Risk, Sand, Arise

  "Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic". Interview with Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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