More quotations tagged with “animals”
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
—Arthur Young
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
—Jackie Kennedy
Animals have two functions in today's society: to be delicious and to fit well.
—Greg Proops
Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret.
—Carl Sagan
If one person is unkind to an animal, it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.
—Ruth Harrison