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Animals Quotes


"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."


"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."


"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"


"Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to."


"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."


"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."


"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."


"Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think."


"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."


"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."


"Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild."


"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."


"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."


"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."


"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."


"Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy."


"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."


"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us."


"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."


"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."


"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."


"I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand."


"The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."


"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."



"The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids."


"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."


"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."


"The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before."
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