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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.
I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.
Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.
I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.
A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.
I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.
Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?
Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.
Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
I became a vegetarian at age 13 because I was into animal issues and felt like it was kinder not to eat animals.
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things
It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!
Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
I just want to be like a little bit of Bluto from 'Animal House,' mixed with like some amazing diva like RuPaul.
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.