I am, because my little dog knows I am.

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this...

I think it’s a very emotional issue because animals can’t speak for themselves. These are people who care about animals and think they are doing the right thing.

on our own journey” and we cannot make moral assessments about, for instance, dairy consumption, then we are simply being speciesist and not applying the same moral analysis to nonhumans that we apply to the...

I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to...

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it’s a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don’t exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.

I’m not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it....

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don’t), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and...

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

This, for many people, is what’s most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

I do not particularly like the word ‘work.’ Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings...

Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

separateness” brings a sense of harmony and enables us to be at peace with oneself and the world.

If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one.

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their...

Sie töten so gerne Tiere, weil es unter Strafe steht, Menschen umzubringen, und weil sie doch so gerne auslöschen, am liebsten sich. Wie die Augen blind werden, im Augenblick des Übergangs von einem beseelten Lebewesen...

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.

If we put aside the self-awareness standard — and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to possess over all creatures and set it atop the hierarchy, proclaiming...

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

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May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It’s because they know what it’s like to be treated like an animal.

We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There’s nothing special about politicians as people. Now as animals, they’d be extraordinary for their ability to be intelligent enough (barely) to be potty trained.

So a dog’s value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines – the particular dogs in their ancestry – and all the information in the...

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

Whoever said you can’t buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.

Humans are the worst kind of animals because of the circles they belong to.

Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with...

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

They don’t have to look the animals in the eyes when they have to be put to sleep.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don’t like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn’t seem to matter to them.

The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck and...

From now on, processing and trading raw blood pudding from poultry and animals is strictly prohibited,

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

This is what we are finding now. These are animals that were neglected and abused before. If this was a normal situation, we’d have a lot of animal abuse prosecutions.

Simply raising the theme of animals in the Third Reich means that our narrative is no longer only an account of what human beings have done to one another, but also about our relations with...