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I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.
Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.
While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
I think that's part of people wanting a wholesome life, to surround yourself with farm animals and fields. That's sort of an American ideal.
We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?
Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.
For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.
Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.
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.
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.
I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.
I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.
Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.