Animal Quotes - Page 27

• I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

  Sarah Palin

  Alaska, People, Rooms

  "Sarah Palin on animal rights". Interview with Andrew Kirschner, kirschnerskorner.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Voice, Helping, Natural

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• Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blood, Tears, Teeth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

  Gary Taubes

  Exercise, Sloth, Body

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• I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

  Graham Swift

  Dog, People, Way

  Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Men

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• Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to be killed. That whole situation is really messed up for animals, growing up in those little cooped-up pens. I just don't think its worth eating that animal. I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Growing Up, Pain, Thinking

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• The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Needs, Care

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• The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Growth, Foundation

  Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

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• Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

  Giordano Bruno

  Thinking, Roosters, Lions

  "Elements of Pantheism". Book by Paul Harrison, 1999.

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• In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Cooking, Dawn

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• Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Struggle, Law, Aids

  "Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution". "The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest". Book by Upton Sinclair, 1915.

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• I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Men, World, Flesh

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

  Jules Henry

  Successful, Vaccines, Trying

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• My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

  Jules Henry

  Monkeys, Today, Firsts

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• All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

  Robert McNamara

  Men, Hands, Never Quit

  "McNamara in Context" by Errol Morris, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• Even now, as we speak, people are having sex with animals. And we wonder why the animals attack us.

  Dave Attell

  Sex, People, Wonder

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, 2003.

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• I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Men, Rocks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
  Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*

  Thom Yorke

  Sex, Laughing, Delight

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• Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Crazy, Doe, Driven

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• The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Wisdom, Sleep, Cat

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• Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer

  Edward Thorndike

  Way, Behavior, Conscious

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.23, Routledge

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• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  Don Van Vliet

  Night, Desert, Looks

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• Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Development, Patterns, Plant

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.66, BenBella Books

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