I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
Lynette Fromme

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
Black Elk

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Aleister Crowley

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Emile Zola

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
John Cleese

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
Bob Barker

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Henrik Ibsen

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert Spencer

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
James Thurber

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
Temple Grandin

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
Temple Grandin

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Barbara Kingsolver