Animals Quotes

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

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

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Loren

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

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

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen