Animal Quotes

“Pain, Victor had learned, turned people into animals.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Wherever there is animal worship there is human sacrifice.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

“The animal does not rebel against its own kind. Consider animals: how just they are, how well-behaved, how they keep to the time-honored, how loyal they are to the land that bears them, how they hold to their accustomed routes, how they care for their young, how they go together to pasture, and how they draw one another to the spring. There is not one that conceals its overabundance of prey and lets its brother starve as a result. There is not one that tries to enforce its will on those of its own kind. Not a one mistakenly imagines that it is an elephant when it is a mosquito. The animal lives fittingly and true to the life of its species, neither exceeding nor falling short of it.

He who never lives his animal must treat his brother like an animal. Abase yourself and live your animal so that you will be able to treat your brother correctly. You will thus redeem all those roaming dead who strive to feed on the living. And do not turn anything you do into a law, since that is the hubris of power.”
― Carl Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

“The humankind is far from being human, and much further kind.”
― Anthony Liccione

“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
― Pythagoras

“A dog is only a dog, Man has many faces.”
― Tarif Naaz

“ANIMAL, n. An organism which, requiring a great number of other animals for its sustenance, illustrates in a marked way the bounty of Providence in preserving the lives of his creatures.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“There are places in the world where even today
Animals are Family. And then there are places where Family are Animals”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“As we work to know the life that surrounds us, we stand in a lineage of naturalists — past, present, and even future. We join the "cloud of witnesses" who refuse to let the more-than-human world pass unnoticed.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

“Tears filled her eyes, and this time neither of them bothered to wipe them away. She stared at the spot long after the lost animal disappeared, silently telling her dad she’d seen one too.”
― Kristen Simmons, Pacifica

“Man is an animal, but even in his animal
functions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; he
becomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as,
for instance, the process of digestion, into self-conscious science.
In this way man breaks the barrier of his implicit and immediate
character, so that precisely because he knows that he is an animal,
he ceases to be an animal and attains knowledge of himself as
spirit.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

“El hombre es el primer animal que ha creado su propio medio. Pero -irónicamente- es el primer animal que de esa manera se está destruyendo a sí mismo.”
― Ernesto Sabato, Hombres y engranajes / Heterodoxia

“Si vous m'accordez que l'homme a une âme - je veux que les bêtes en aient, toutes les bêtes - à commencer par le pourceau pour finir à la fourmi, aux animaux microscopiques. Si l'homme est libre les animaux sont libres, ils seront comme lui récompensés ou punis, que d'âmes diverses, que d'enfers, que de paradis eût dit Voltaire - cette réflexion est humiliante - elle conduit au matérialisme et au nihilisme.

(If you grant me that man has a soul, I like to think that animals have souls, too-all animals, from the pig to the ant, even the microscopic animals. If man is free, animals are free; like him they will be rewarded or punished. So many different souls, so many hells, so many heavens, Voltaire would have said. This reflection is humiliating. It leads to materialism or to nihilism.)”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You have to love a woman’s cats like you love the woman.”
― Steven Magee

“Andrew stood, facing Peter and Natalie with a wry smile on his face. "You know, one of the reasons I started this sanctuary is because the best way to treat broken animals is with broken people. Each fixes the other.”
― Dawn Reno Langley, The Mourning Parade

“You don’t want people to be kind to animals because they’re animals, you just want people to be kind to animals because one of them might be you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Pets enrich our lives...and poop on our floors!”
― Steven Magee

“Like any woman, Elena knew that there are three things you cannot upstage: a child, an animal, and a faggot.”
― Joyce Haber, The Users

“We have no reason to believe that an animal can grasp the notion of extended life, let alone choose to trade current suffering for it.”
― Bernard Rollin

“Studdy was thinking that the creature was an animal; he was saying to himself that it was surely in error that she had become a member of the human race.”
― William Trevor, The Boarding-House

“Hm. New lives, being buried alive. Life already dead
before it can even start. Such a shame!”
― Leen Lefebre, Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)

“ATP inaweza kukusaidia kupata akili na nguvu ya kufanya jambo ambalo katika hali ya kawaida lisingewezekana. Wakati mwingine unaweza kufanya jambo hata wewe mwenyewe ukashangaa umelifanyaje. Unaweza kwa mfano kufukuzwa na mnyama mkali ukapenya mahali ambapo, katika hali ya kawaida usingepenya. Sasa usishangae tena. Kilichofanya upenye ni ATP.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Es cierto que en algunos animales superiores como en primates se ha observado comportamiento deductivo, pero este desarrollo ha sido comparado con el de un niño de dos años, a partir de esta edad, no existe parangón en la naturaleza sobre el desarrollo cognitivo humano.”
― Juan Moises De La Serna, Psicología Animal: Descubre qué papel juega en la vida

“Dicen que el humano es un animal racional; en tiempos de guerra, no te atrevas a usar el adjetivo 'racional'!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Inadvertently, I had stumbled across what has been called the Harvard law of animal behavior, which is related to Murphy's law: "You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn well pleases.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

“The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either. It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.”
― Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night

“She has spent the night hidden in the left corner of the room, watching this man she’s been told is her husband become the animal he’s been told that he is.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Thanks to racism, some of the people who often kiss animals are disgusted by even the mere thought of them touching some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Quand les animaux se comportent comme des humains ou quand les humains se comportent comme des animaux, ne soyez pas surpris, car dans chaque animal, il y a un humain et dans chaque être humain, il y a un animal!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You again?"
I glanced to my left and there was Ryker. I almost laughed at the irony. Pretty soon he’d think I was running into him on purpose. “What’s his name?” I asked, jerking my chin toward his dark bay charger sporting white socks.
“Napoleon,” he said, which surprised me. His response almost sounded human. “And don’t get too close to him. He bites.”
I rolled my eyes. That was more like him. “Oh, that’s okay. I bite back.” I could have sworn his lips twitched into what appeared to be a grin.”
― Becky Moynihan, Reactive