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Animals Quotes
"It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."
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"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
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"The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
8
"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
8
"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."
8
"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."
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"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."
7
"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."
7
"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."
7
"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."
7
"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."
6
"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."
6
"The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."
6
"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."
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"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them."
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"Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection."
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"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"
5
"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
5
"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
5
"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."
5
"Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to."
5
"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."
5
"In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules."
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"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do."
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"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."
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"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
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