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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
I've seen Animal House two and a half times now at sneak previews with a real audience, and the reaction was great.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
'Rock n' Roll Animal,' the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.
I think the way I can sing the way I sing is because of the way I talk to my animals. I hit some really high notes.
All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.
My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Actually I do believe we need a proper licensed regime that works better and is much more focused on animal welfare.
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.
A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.