“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.” IfsFeelsHumansPainSufferingAnimalCompassionToo MuchRegretEssentialsBehaviorGuiltExperimentsBehaveDistinctionVegetarianPretendingVeganAnimal RightsPretensionHumans And AnimalsAnimal BehaviorAnimal Suffering Author:Carl Sagan
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.” DifficultCatPet AnimalsAnimal BehaviorCat Lover Author:Theophile Gautier
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.” MenAnimalCompassionCreaturesBehaviorFishesCrueltyVeganAnimal RightsNaziVegetarianismSlaughterAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal WorldAnimal LifeAnimal TestingAnimal BehaviorSmugnessMight Is Right Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.” WellsLawAnimalConditionsEvolutionPleaseBehaviorTrainingDamnBehaveControlledOrganismsFeedingTemperatureHarvardLightingAnimal Behavior Author:Joel Garreau
“The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.” Has BeensPastAnimalPrinciplesBehaviorMiracleRationalAssumptionGuiding PrinciplesAnimal Behavior Author:C. S. Lewis
“I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.” MindFeelingsAnimalTeacherWonderfulDogTaughtPersonalityBehaviorMy DogAnimal BehaviorWonderful Teacher Author:Jane Goodall
“Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.” InspirationalFeelsHumansPainAnimalExperimentsPretendingVeganAnimal Behavior Author:Carl Sagan