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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
— Nadine Gordimer
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
— Swami Vivekananda
She's like his spirit animal, a gentle, odd, spritely being who I'm pretty sure has a storage space full of fairy dust.
— Jandy Nelson
I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
— Vita Sackville-West
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
— Robert Lynd
Man is a reasoning Animal.
— Seneca The Younger
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year ... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
— George A. Sheehan
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people ... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
— Benjamin Zephaniah
We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.
— Michael Greger
My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.
— Alison Eastwood
I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat.
— James Ellroy
Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.
— Peter Steinhart
These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.
— Phyllis Rose
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
— John Berger
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
— Ingrid Newkirk
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
— Claire Coffee
Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal
— Sunday Adelaja
He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.
— Marissa Meyer
Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
— D.H. Lawrence
Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
— Carol J. Adams
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
— Peter Singer
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
— Malcolm De Chazal
I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.
— Yvette Christianse
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.
— Christopher Gerard
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
— Cesar Chavez
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
— James Stewart
You understand why some animals eat their young.
— John Paul Jones
We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.
— T. Thorn Coyle
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
— Alice Hoffman
It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.
— Barack Obama
I'm a really big animal lover.
— Lea Michele
If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?
— Tsem Tulku
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H.L. Mencken
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
— David Attenborough
Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
— Quentin Tarantino
Winners don't eat wieners.
— Ingrid Newkirk
DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks.
— Yuval Noah Harari
'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
— Ben Mendelsohn
My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive
— Haruki Murakami
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .
— James Branch Cabell
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
— Francis Picabia
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
— Herbert Spencer
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
— Jacqueline Bisset
The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
— George Orwell
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
— Ingrid Newkirk
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
— Jeanette Winterson
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
— Erwin Schrodinger
Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.
— Wayne Pacelle
It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.
— Gordon Klingenschmitt
He wasn't terrified of nature's realities for he was naturally a good animal and instinctively knew how to survive.
— Tom Omstead
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.
— Ingrid Newkirk
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
— Caterina Murino
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
— Elfriede Jelinek
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
— Albert Schweitzer
He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.
— Alan Hollinghurst
Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.
— Gautama Buddha
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
— Swami Vivekananda
A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.
— Nenia Campbell
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
For the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended.
— Philip Wollen