Animal Quotes - Page 34

• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

  Adrian McKinty

  Dna, Patterns, Looks

  Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.278, Serpent's Tail

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• Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Zeppelins, Beast

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• Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

  Moby

  Powerful, Nice, People

  VegNews Interview, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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• The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

  Taiichi Ohno

  Zoos, Moving, People

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• Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

  George Santayana

  Love Is, Divine

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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• I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

  Leonora Carrington

  Thinking, Meat, Difficult

  " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

  Louis Leakey

  Recovery, Skeletons, Museums

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• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

  Louis Leakey

  Sleep, Nursing, Care

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• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  George Schaller

  Children, Ecosystems, Drug

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• My father was not a political animal.

  Mickey Kaus

  Father, Political, Political Animals

  RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don't use animal products, so you don't wear leather, you don't wear wool, and you don't eat animal products. But you can eat french fries and stuff like that all day long.

  Emily Deschanel

  Mean, Long, Stuff

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

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• Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat industry as though they are inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities.

  Emily Deschanel

  Dog, Cat, Intelligent

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• Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

  Marc Bekoff

  People, Harm, Glad

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint”, p.172, New World Library

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• Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched in our moral community. Accepting the notion of ‘animal guardian’ to replace ‘pet owner’ will go a long way towards making the lives of our companions much better and richer.

  Marc Bekoff

  Long, Community, Pet

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• There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

  Frans de Waal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Favors

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• It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The more they learn about these great apes, the deeper our identity crisis seems to become. The resemblance between humans and chimpanzees is not only external. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent, self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

  Frans de Waal

  Zoos, Eye, Intelligent

  Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

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• Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Gaylord Simpson (1959). “The Meaning of Evolution”

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• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  Carol J. Adams

  Distance, Reality, Meat Eating

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• Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

  Geoffrey Barraclough

  Past, Men, History

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• Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

  William Henry Hudson

  Class, Strange, Young

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Profound

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• The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

  Marcia Muller

  Want, Humans, Human Animal

  Marcia Muller (2011). “Beyond the Grave”, p.216, Speaking Volumes

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• Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the
  silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of
  silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled
  with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence.
  The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great
  and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize.
  Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something
  created for its own sake.

  Max Picard

  Moving, Silence, Upset

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• The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

  Robert Briffault

  Males, Female, Benefits

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• Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.

  Martin Lel

  Strong, Drinking, Clothes

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