“I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.” LittlesShowsBigsLightUsedWishFeltAnimalMissingUsed To BeCanvasElegantCircusTentsHaySawdust Author:Francis Lawrence
“We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.” ShouldVoiceAnimalSticksCrueltyChainsRadicalPoisonAggressiveElephantsCircusCorpsesNuisance Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.” KindImportantIdeasStatesCertainChoicesCoursesDecisionAnimalImagineStyleParticularExpressionHairMassBasesDemocraticLeavingCommandPropagandaVotingControlledVotersImagine ThatPreferenceCircusSuitableFacialOratoryBe EncouragedImportant DecisionsImplantsTruismFacial Expression Author:Revilo P. Oliver
“But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.” UseAnimalPunishmentCircusOppressors Author:Richard Pryor
“Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.” KnowsFirstsWellsShowsThreeAnimalGroupsTelevisionRingsImmense80sCircusTelevision ShowsReinventingCirque Du Soleil Author:Criss Angel
“Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.” CountryAnimalRescueCircusZoosPetaAnimal RescueRoadsideAbused Animals Author:Sam Simon
“No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.” KnowsMayAnimalWonderCircusChimpanzeesGorillas Author:Paul Mooney