Inspirational Animal Quotes

• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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• I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

  Gilda Radner

  Dog, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

  K. D. Lang

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Pet

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

  Haile Selassie

  Animal, Compassion, Pet

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• If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.183, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

  Alice Walker

  Animal, Pet, Ignored

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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• Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Kings, Animal, Men

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• Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sports, Animal, Gun

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• Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Beautiful, Animal, Humanity

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• The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  Albert Einstein

  Compassion, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fate, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

  David C. Coates

  Laughter, Animal, Men

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• We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

  Henry Beston

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Needs

  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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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Life, Dog, Men

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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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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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

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

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• Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Home, Owning A Pet

  John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

  Michael Klaper

  Dog, Horse, Health

  "Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much–and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter". Book by David Robinson Simon, September 2013.

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