Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn’t meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be...

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I will mother you.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He’s like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another...

A man wasn’t equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. “We...

We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings.

A cockroach can not attend the meeting of chicken and be offered innocent.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

I’d say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

If I had the choice between being a Muslim or an animal; I would have certainly opted for the latter one.

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.The Earth will forget...

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Sigmund Freud once asserted, “Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms...

gives birth”—it’s much more noble. Yet we have the right to make such distinctions because we assign the meaning to the world by naming names of things; we inhabit a different sphere and we capitalize...

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one.But, whereas animals don’t...

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts

We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac treeFrom which a small wood-owl calls.

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.

The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

‘At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom’ by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

When you don’t fight your adversary, you become the coward in the sight of animalistic breeds, but they forget that your real strength stays in the whisper of your voice.

The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely...

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply...

If it’s about the strength, every big animal can catch any mouse… but the skillful brand of the cat makes it’s catch exceptional! Go, get the skills!

I’m not a political animal, I’m a curious animal.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

Hufanani na yoyote katika dunia hii. Unafanana na wewe mwenyewe. Usimdharau mtu, humjui!

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you’ve never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

When what one does, reps, or ‘spits’, repetitively, is foul or beastly – one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature’s law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game,...

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man’s character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal’s rotting carcass.

I can’t stand the idea of missing something. I’ve got to know what’s going on – it’s like an animal instinct with me.

Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter of each gigantic cell trailed a continuous loop of these bright green dots....

If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and the commodification of their reproductive processes, as well as the destruction of their relationship with their...