If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
James Herriot

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

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Don Van Vliet

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Don Van Vliet

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Don Van Vliet

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

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

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.
Charles Babbage

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
Dian Fossey

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

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky