Animals Quotes
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.Loren
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.Alexander Graham Bell
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.George Eliot
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals.Will Rogers
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.Plato
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.Beaumarchis
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.Wystan Hugh Auden
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.Richard F. Lovelace
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.Erving Goffman
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.Alfred Victor Vigny
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.H. L. Mencken
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.Froude
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
