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Animals Quotes
"It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."
102
"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am."
68
"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."
50
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
49
"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
48
"Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly."
47
"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."
44
"I hear they're all infected with chlamydia, which just goes to show that you really can't tell who's got the clam. I mean, look at a picture of a koala, tell me you're not shocked."
43
"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."
42
"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."
40
"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."
39
"No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development."
39
"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."
38
"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
38
"There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there."
38
"Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description."
37
"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper."
37
"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
36
"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live."
36
"In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules."
36
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
36
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."
35
"Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north."
35
"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
35
"As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other."
35
"As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment."
34
"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"
34
"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
34
"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals."
34
"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
34
"Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think."
34
"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
33
"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."
33
"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
32
"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."
32
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