top of page
Animals Quotes


"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."


"The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day."


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


"Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors."



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


"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."


"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper."


"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."


"I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form."


"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."


"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."


"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."


"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."


"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."


"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."


"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."


"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."


"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."


"Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out."


"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience."


"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."


"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."


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


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


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


"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."


"You're a good example of why some animals eat their young."


"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."


"Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island."


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


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


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


"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."


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


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


"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."
bottom of page