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Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know
I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.
If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.
When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.