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| A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. John Berger Quotes |
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| I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
| The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. It is, I think, impossible to read the account given by Sir E. Tennent, of the behaviour of the female elephants, used as decoys, without admitting that they intentionally practise deceit, and well know what they are about. Courage and timidity are extremely variable qualities in the individuals of the same species, as is plainly seen in our dogs. Some dogs and horses are ill-tempered, and easily turn sulky; others are good-tempered; and these qualities are certainly inherited. Every one knows how liable animals are to furious rage, and how plainly they shew it. Many, and probably true, anecdotes have been published on the long-delayed and artful revenge of various animals. The accurate Rengger, and Brehm state that the American and African monkeys which they kept tame, certainly revenged themselves. Sir Andrew Smith, a zoologist whose scrupulous accuracy was known to many persons, told me the following story of which he was himself an eye-witness; at the Cape of Good Hope an officer had often plagued a certain baboon, and the animal, seeing him approaching one Sunday for parade, poured water into a hole and hastily made some thick mud, which he skilfully dashed over the officer as he passed by, to the amusement of many bystanders. For long afterwards the baboon rejoiced and triumphed whenever he saw his victim. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| "[T]he lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children. Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies." Charles Darwin Quotes |
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| "[Regarding factory-farmed animals] We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all." Matthew Scully Quotes |
| Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell. John Wesley Quotes |
| If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, le Quotes |
| I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back. Stephenie Geist Quotes |
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Colette Quotes |
| It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. Voltaire, letter to Count Schomberg, 31 Quotes |
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| The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. Hebrew Proverb Quotes |
| Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. Benjamin Hoff Quotes |
| It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. Douglas Adams Quotes |
| An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. Martin Buber Quotes |
| You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. Nora Ephron Quotes |
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| Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Quotes |
| It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. Douglas Adams Quotes |
| I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. Mark Twain Quotes |
| To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash Quotes |
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| All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell Quotes |
| A 'geek' by definition is someone who eats live animals....I've never eaten live animals. Crispin Glover Quotes |
| Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert Heinlein Quotes |
| Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. Douglas Adams Quotes |
| I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
