Animals Quotes

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

~ James Cromwell

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

~ Satish Kumar

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

~ David Attenborough

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

~ Richard Branson

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

~ Ivan Pavlov

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

~ Shia Labeouf

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

~ Joan Jett

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

~ Mother Angelica

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.

~ Isabella Rossellini

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

~ Edward Thorndike

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

~ Craig Venter

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

~ Jared Diamond

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.

~ Maria Montessori

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 Anthony Froude

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

~ Joel Salatin

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

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

~ George Orwell

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

~ Elvis Costello

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

~ Diogenes

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

~ Mike Mills

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

~ Edward Thorndike

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

~ Edward Thorndike

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

~ Michael Shermer

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

~ D. A. Pennebaker

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

~ Bryan Fuller

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

~ Igor Stravinsky

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

~ Kenneth Grahame

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

~ Steve Irwin

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

~ John Cleese

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

~ Michael Crichton

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

~ Dolly Parton

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

~ Alice Waters

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

~ Frans De Waal

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

~ Peter Dinklage

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

~ Mary Roach