A Quotes
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“Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.”
“Animals are cute on farms, nauseating in slaughterhouses, tasty on forks ... Evolution.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.”
“Animals are footprints of God.”
“Animals are free because they can't pick and choose.”
“Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.”
“Animals are good to think with.”
“Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.”
“Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!”
“Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.”
Source: Philosophy of right
“Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world’s most emotionally human land mammal.”
“Animals are irrational men”
“Animals are just as important as we are.”
“Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.”
Source: All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love
“Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.”
“Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents normal people don't, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don't; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. I think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals.”
Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
“Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.”
“Animals are like people because people are animals.”
“Animals are logical creatures...Humans? We're emotional. We're swayed by how things make us feel, even if we're quietly aware that those feelings are leading us down a dark and dangerous road where the next thing we're likely to feel is a kick in the proverbial unmentionables.”
Source: Legend to Farmer: A Slice of Life Fantasy
“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.”
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”
Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners
“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.”
“Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.”
Source: Kull: Exile of Atlantis
“Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?”
“Animals are no different from humans or humans are no different from animals? It’s hard to decide.”
Source: Quantraz
“Animals are not here for our entertainment.”
“Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.”
“Animals are not ingredients.”
“Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice. Justice must be blind to race, color, religion or species. If she is not blind, she will be a weapon of terror.”
“Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.”
“Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.”
“Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched in our moral community. Accepting the notion of ‘animal guardian’ to replace ‘pet owner’ will go a long way towards making the lives of our companions much better and richer.”
“Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?”
Source: The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir
“Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.”
“Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.”
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests
in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “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 have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.
At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.”
“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.”
“Animals are sacrificed to appease the demonic demands of the stomach Gods.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.”
“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.”
“Animals are simply magical creatures, and they can teach us more than we can teach them.”
“Animals are so beautiful. Why does an American dentist need to go to Africa to kill them? Look, I get it. You're a hunter? Go kill a deer and eat it or a bear where there's a lot of them. But I just don't get it.”
“Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.”
“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.”
“Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.”
Source: The tugman's passage
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“Animals are such agreeable friends.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus