What is the bottom line for the animal/human hierarchy? I think it is at the animate/inanimate line, and Carol Adams and others are close to it: we eat them. This is what humans want from...

It’s basically an injection, but it’s a good-sized shot. The animals don’t seem to mind it, but it tends to freak some owners out.

wup-wup-wup” – Pil and Popo

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world...

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not...

When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I’m just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it’s going to be my friend.

all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Animals don’t know exactly what will happen when they die any more than we do. In the absence of specific knowledge, they simply trust. They trust death the way they trust life: as participation in...

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

In the debate over the use of antibiotics in agriculture, a distinction is usually made between their clinical and nonclinical uses. Public health advocates don’t object to treating sick animals with antibiotics; they just don’t...

It is just my imagination that flies,While she is wrapped up in her bedsheetslike a nest.

If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all,...

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves...

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Milkers don’t spend half as long with their mothers.” Eli spread his chore coat over Little Joe. “Not more than a few weeks. Sometimes one day. Maybe not even … If you were a peeper,...

All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the wildness of the world and behold its beauty, but that we must first...

Puppy mills create misery for dogs and pain for the unwitting purchasers of the animals, and they indirectly deny suitable homes for animals in need. There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals available from shelters...

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

Hair on a man’s chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

Lots of people talk to animals…Not very many listen though…that’s the problem.

I can’t find who wrote this (it was’t me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren’t important at all except for the...

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

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...

One morning she happened upon a bit of cloth decorated with pictures of little red squirrels carrying small, brown,nutsacks,and she nearly fainted away.

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses...

I asked “What do you even do with a chimera?””What wouldn’t you do with a chimera?” Jeff asked. “They’re like the Swiss Army knife of animals.

We’ll know we’ve got it right when they choose for themselves,” he used to say. That doesn’t make sense. ‘That’s what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I...

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

I think it’s cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I’d feel honored.

Animals suffer both emotionally and physically, but they don’t suffer metaphysically. That is, they don’t suffer about suffering, don’t get thrown into spiritual confusion by it, or fall out of connection with the divine because...

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.

If people and governments have money to spend on animals and the humane treatment of animals, they will. But in Mexico and a lot of other countries, that’s sometimes not an option.

If I was going to spend the next day in jail for obstruction of justice, I’d better get a good nights sleep.

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to...

I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn’t make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn’t care that he was kind of weird,...

They prey on our children like animals and will continue to do so until we stop them,

Flip has wanted to go to Mexico for quite a while. But it’s difficult to let our animals decide where they want to go . . . really difficult.

What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different

Look, PETA! If God hadn’t wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them so darn tasty!

What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.