220 Most Inspirational Animal Quotes To Make You Love Animals More

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Famous Animal Quotes

Man, an animal that makes bargains. — Adam Smith

Animals are good to think with. — Claude Levi-Strauss

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

My favorite animal is steak. — Fran Lebowitz

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

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. — Edward Hoagland

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being. — Gary A. Kowalski

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. — Alfred Armand Montapert

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. — Alfred A. Montapert

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other. — Louis J. Camuti

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. — Rabindranath Tagore

Every animal knows more than you do. - American Indian Proverbs

Every animal knows more than you do. — American Indian Proverbs

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. - Evan Esar

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. - Andy Biersack

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. — Andy Biersack

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. — Adam Smith

Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. — David Wojnarowicz

Short Animal Quotes

  • We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. — Immanuel Kant
  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. — Ibn Arabi
  • If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik
  • You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin
  • Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
  • Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals. — Averroes
  • A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
  • Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson

Animal Image Quotes

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. - Jane Goodall quote

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. — Jane Goodall

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell quote

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. — George Orwell

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber quote

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. — Martin Buber

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. - Ali MacGraw quote

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. — Ali MacGraw

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. — George Bernard Shaw

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. - Saint Basil quote

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. — Saint Basil

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you. - Margaret Mary Alacoque quote

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. - Haile Selassie quote

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. — Haile Selassie

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason. - John Maynard Keynes quote

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason. — John Maynard Keynes

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life - Chuck Jones quote

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life — Chuck Jones

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]. - Ingrid Newkirk quote

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]. — Ingrid Newkirk

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man! - Joseph Merrick quote

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man! — Joseph Merrick

Dogs never lie about love. - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson quote

Dogs never lie about love. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible. - Albert Howard quote

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible. — Albert Howard

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. - William Blake quote

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. — William Blake

Animal quote Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Cute Animal Quotes

What greater gift than the love of a cat. — Charles Dickens

If you make friends with dogs, they can be really cute! — Akira Toriyama

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. — A. A. Milne

Animal quote Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. — Paul Gray

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. — Walt Disney

Animal quote It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. — William Ralph Inge

...he will be our friend for always and always and always. — Rudyard Kipling

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. — Plato

Farm Animal Quotes

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? — George Orwell

Animal quote Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.
Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.

Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step. — Christofer Drew

No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good. — Howard Lyman

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. — Laura Mennell

Animal quote If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t, either.
If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t, either.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. — Kim Basinger

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry. — Anthony Bourdain

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. — James Cromwell

But the changes triggered by the rapid industrialization of farmed foods were severely damaging. Within just a few generations of eating this stuff, modern humans became the worst breathers in Homo history, the worst breathers in the animal kingdom. — James Nestor

Man Is A Political Animal Quotes

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. — John Steinbeck

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. — Hans Morgenthau

Animal quote When it is too hard to look back, and you are afraid to look ahead... Look beside you. I'll always b
When it is too hard to look back, and you are afraid to look ahead... Look beside you. I'll always be there.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it. — George Bernard Shaw

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal. — Robert Bellarmine

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle

Animal quote We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal. — Hugh Maclennan

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state. — Aristotle

For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question. — Michel Foucault

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Party Animal Quotes

I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social. — Jhene Aiko

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. — Tracy Chapman

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure. — Rima Fakih

Animal quote Animals do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Animals do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle. — Kelly LeBrock

I like parties, but I don't like piñatas because the pinata promotes violence against flamboyant animals. Hey, there's a donkey with some pizzazz. Let's kick its ass. — Demetri Martin

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. — Alexander Pope

Animal quote Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal. — Susan Cain

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low. — Cote de Pablo

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. — H. L. Mencken

There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory! — LIZ

Loss Of Animal Quotes

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. — Bob Barker

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment. — Ivan Pavlov

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

Animal quote Every animal on earth is a living being with feelings, emotions, and a family life. Just like you an
Every animal on earth is a living being with feelings, emotions, and a family life. Just like you and me.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. — John Galsworthy

Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone. — Gary A. Kowalski

Animal quote When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. — William James

Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating. — Al Sears

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? — George Eliot

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn. — Jim Gibbons

Animal Rights Quotes

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected. — Francis of Assisi

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection. — Francis of Assisi

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else. — Maimonides

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. - Pythagoras

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. — Sitting Bull

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson

Animal Life Quotes

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. — Charlotte Mason

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers. — Matt Groening

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. — Albert Schweitzer

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it. — Dick Gregory

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. - Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs. — Alicia Silverstone

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky

Animal Love Quotes

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? — Saadat Hasan Manto

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. — James Herriot

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman

Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. — Anthony of Padua

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. - Anatole France

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein

It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals. — Gary Yourofsky

Animal World Quotes

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! — Eleanor Roosevelt

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. — C. S. Lewis

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay. — E. O. Wilson

Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate. — Gichin Funakoshi

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. — Emile Zola

Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. — Henry Beston

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. — Hiromu Arakawa

These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator. — George Q. Cannon

In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone. — Ric O'Barry

Animal Compassion Quotes

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! — Pythagoras

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. — Jeremy Bentham

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. — Richard Gere

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. - William Blake

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. — William Blake

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals. — Peter Singer

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. — Abraham Lincoln

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan

Animal Welfare Quotes

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live. — Konrad Lorenz

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog. — Frederick the Great

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury. — Alexander von Humboldt

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty. — Emile Zola

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. — James Stewart

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. — George Bernard Shaw

I didn't realize puppy mills were a problem until my wife, Bessy, and I got our first dog, Cannoli. — Joe Gatto

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life. — John Feldmann

Animal Food Quotes

If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican. — Dixon Lanier Merritt

There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically, but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing that I'm not contributing to that. — Sophie Monk

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. — Temple Grandin

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain

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

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals — Chrissie Hynde

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. — Mary Tyler Moore

Pet Animals Quotes

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts. — John the Apostle

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. — John Muir

I've been a big advocate of adopt-don't-shop. — Joe Gatto

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog. — Charles M. Schulz

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. — Henry Bergh

At one point, I had close to 100 birds. — Akira Toriyama

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? — Aldo Leopold

A house is not a home until it has a dog. - Gerald Durrell

A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell

Human Animal Quotes

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. — Sigmund Freud

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. — Ibn Khaldun

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. — Mark Twain

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results. — Niccolo Machiavelli

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal. — Jane Goodall

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Thomas Harris

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. — Karl Marx

The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality. — Marton Csokas

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. — Jared Diamond

Wild Animal Quotes

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel. — Virginia McKenna

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested. — Rick Riordan

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. — Axel Munthe

The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way. — Wesley Willis

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. — James A. Froude

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage. — Georges St-Pierre

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. — Ellsworth Huntington

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. — Muhammad Iqbal

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

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. — Pythagoras

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. — Tite Kubo

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom

A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill. — William Golding

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane. — John B. Watson

In Conclusion

Animal quotes can be inspiring and thought-provoking, reminding us of the bond between humans and animals. They can also encourage us to be more compassionate towards animals and promote their welfare. These quotes often highlight the innocence and purity of animals, emphasizing the lessons we can learn from them about love, loyalty, and living in harmony with nature.

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