Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them… The animals...

If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that’s morally justifiable, in our opinion.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what...

I ask Laurie if it’s possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I’ve never produced a movie.

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn’t hurt more or less if God caused it or could...

Because we tend to equate intelligence with language–particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions–it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we’re on auto-pilot and don’t even realize we’re following a course of action that we haven’t consciously...

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?’No,’ I said.People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it’s not enough just to be a dog...

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

Don’t judge a cat by its coat.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Products from infected animals will not enter the food chain. Systems are in place.

Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

When it comes to looking after all the species that are already endangered, there’s such a lot to do that sometimes it might all seem to be too much, especially when there are so many...

She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

The sharing of information must be timely, regular and global. From the more than 30 reported outbreaks in animals from 2005, no (Chinese) viruses have been made available so far.

And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and bristling grey fur; its body was a blob, the kind of shape a six-year-old would draw for a pig,...

The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generation which will come...

Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two.

Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about takingresponsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

Cats are there to be indulged. That’s their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will...

I am not over fond of animals.

Leave it man. Squirrel’s botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark’s intae hurtin animals… it’s wrong man. Ye cannae love yirsel if ye want tae hurt things like that… ah mean… what...

woof” in cat.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have...

Why was it, she asked herself, that “animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

We were treated like animals.

I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.

How monotonous our speaking becomes when we speak only to ourselves! And how insulting to the other beings – to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses – that no longer sense us talking to...

We see horrible things when animals are tied up. They’re left out in the sun with no food or water, and they are blistered and overheated.

Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.

You wouldn’t believe how many of these drivers have animals and how important it is for them to have them. These guys work so hard. They travel every weekend all year, and they all bring...

Nature, … in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity...

Humans don’t just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don’t just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren’t...

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned...

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish...

Owing to variations between animals and humans in the genetic expressions of the next generation, these doubts cannot be resolved through animal tests.

The walking of man and all animals, is a falling forward

Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation…just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for many centuries past. One distinct change marks modern...

Given the industry’s reliance on trucks as the primary means of transporting farm animals, the USDA’s failure to apply the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to trucks renders the act virtually useless, … Transporting farm animals for...

Man is no man, but a wolf

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it...