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Animals Quotes
"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."
35
"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."
35
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
35
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
34
"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."
34
"Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors."
34
"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
33
"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."
33
"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
32
"Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated."
32
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
32
"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."
32
"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."
32
"I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it."
32
"When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether."
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"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat."
32
"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."
31
"Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild."
31
"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."
31
"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
31
"One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it."
30
"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."
30
"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
30
"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
30
"The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."
29
"Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves."
29
"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."
29
"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."
28
"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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