In Animals All men are enemies. All animals are comrades. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major.
In Animals ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 10. When Clover asks Benjamin if the Seven Commandments are still the same as they used to be, Benjamin looks at the wall and sees they have been replaced with this single Commandment.
Because animals are property, we consider as ‘humane treatment’ that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. – Gary L. Francione
My relaxation has always been my animals – going to the dog park with them, going to the beach. – Hilary Swank
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It’s hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously. – Gero Miesenbock
Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there’ll be catastrophe. – Harry Kroto
We’re not very dangerous animals; we don’t have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. – Helen Fisher
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself. – Hans Jonas
I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist. – Gene Pitney
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. – Georges Cuvier
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. – Georges Cuvier
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. – Heinz R. Pagels
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone – to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. – Helen Fisher
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. – Gary L. Francione
Researching ‘Lone Wolf,’ I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn’t provoked by the human. – Jodi Picoult
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be. – Julian Baggini
The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: ‘Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?’ – Joel Salatin
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. – Julia Child
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. – Julius Streicher
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting. – Isabella Rossellini
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. – James Cromwell
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
