
„Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.“
— Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977
Variant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
A collection of quotes on the topic of dogs, horse, cats, animals.
„Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.“
— Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977
Variant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
„Dying more like animals than human beings.“
— Giovanni Boccaccio, book The Decameron
Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno.
First Day, Introduction
The Decameron (c. 1350)
„I've had an animal all my life, I wouldnt know myself without one!)“
— Ben Kowalewicz musician 1975
From "The Diary of Billy Talent":
„Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.“
— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849
" Diddling: Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1390/"; first published as "Raising the Wind" in Saturday Courier (1843-10-14).
„Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
„Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
„All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.“
— John Steinbeck American writer 1902 - 1968
„You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.“
— Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942
„Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.“
— Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
Total 3131 quotes animals, filter:
— Isidro A. T. Savillo Filipino biologist 1959
The Overpowering Influence of the Environment to Gene Expression, Biologybrowser.org, 2002 http://biologybrowser.org/node/1154589,
— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
The Ten Trusts (2003), p. xv
— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
" An Interview with Jane Goodall https://web.archive.org/web/20100920074838/http://www.idausa.org:80/essays/goodallinterview.html", In Defense of Animals (date unknown)
Context: Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.
„Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.“
— Theodor W. Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society 1903 - 1969
— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947
Speech in Porto Alegre http://www2.planalto.gov.br/acompanhe-o-planalto/discursos/discursos-da-presidenta/discurso-da-presidenta-da-republica-dilma-rousseff-na-cerimonia-de-anuncio-de-investimentos-do-pac-mobilidade-urbana-e-entrega-de-57-maquinas-motoniveladoras ( YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3IvZToSwgE), October 12.
2013
— Henry Beston American writer 1888 - 1968
Source: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Context: We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
„The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow“
— Dian Fossey American zoologist, gorilla researcher 1932 - 1985
„If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.“
— George Orwell, book Animal Farm
Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Variant: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Source: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison
„If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
— Meryl Streep American actress 1949
Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe, book Democracy: The God That Failed
Source: Democracy: The God That Failed (2001), P.173
— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993
"Ariana Grande: "I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding"" https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ariana-grande-i-love-animals-4754625, interview with the Mirror (5 December 2014)
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Handwritten note published in People (12 October 1987)
— Mckenna Grace American child actress 2006
“Young Actors Visit a Rescued Animal Sanctuary,” video interview with PETA Kids (14 November 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jq4n3Pnku0.
„If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.“
— Zakir Naik Islamic televangelist 1965
Zakir Naik https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7133146.Zakir_Naik
— Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831 - 1890
GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull
Attributed quotes
— John Grogan American journalist 1958
Source: Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Variant: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Context: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 BC
Attribution to Pythagoras by Ovid, as quoted in The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 260; also in Vegetarian Times, No. 168 (August 1991), p. 4
Context: 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. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
„Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.“
— Aldo Leopold, book A Sand County Almanac
"A Man's Leisure Time," 1920; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 8.
1920s
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
„Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.“
— Tamora Pierce, book Wild Magic
Source: Wild Magic
„Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.“
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
— Bruce Chatwin, book The Songlines
Source: The Songlines
— Henry Beston American writer 1888 - 1968
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„I'd rather skate naked than wear fur.“
— Surya Bonaly French figure skater 1973
Banner held for PETA, as she skated in Asnieres, near Paris (31 January 2007); as quoted in " 今天我最炫 Skate Naked 裸體滑冰 http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/international/20070202/3227612/", in the Apple Daily (2 February 2007).
— Zeno of Citium ancient Greek philosopher -334 - -263 BC
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.
— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917
In Degas by Himself, Drawings, Paintings, Writings, ed. Richard Kendall 2000, p. 299
quotes, undated
— Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov Bulgarian philosopher 1900 - 1986
The Yoga of Nutrition, Editions Prosveta, 2012 ebook edition, pp. 24 https://books.google.it/books?id=jnoVCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24-25.
— John Wayne Gacy American serial killer and torturer 1942 - 1994
John Wayne Gacy on Todd Phillips: Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, Skinny Nervous Guy Prod, 1994. 2007 DVD re-release watched March 1, 2010.
— Anna Kingsford English physician, activist and feminist 1846 - 1888
Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism (1912); quoted in Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb by Rod Preece (Routledge, 2002), p. 344 https://books.google.it/books?id=Mf6TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA344.
— Scott Cawthon American independent video game designer 1971
— John Green, book The Fault in Our Stars
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
— Joaquin Phoenix American actor, music video director, producer, musician, and social activist 1974
" Fake leather please! http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_fake-leather-please_1064075". Interview for Daily News and Analysis. November 14, 2006.
— Heinrich Himmler Nazi officer, Commander of the SS 1900 - 1945
Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S.S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s
— Diogenes of Sinope ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy -404 - -322 BC
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 40
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
— Steve-O England-born American stunt performer/radio personality 1974
"Steve-O Snags Top PETA Honor" https://www.peta.org/blog/steve-o-takes-top-peta-honor/, PETA (July 18, 2011).
— Walt Disney American film producer and businessman 1901 - 1966
Stating that the development of the Mickey Mouse character was inspired by Charlie Chaplin's character "the Tramp", as quoted in How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004) by Pat Williams and Jim Denney, p. 52
Context: We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin — a little fellow trying to do the best he could.
— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Building to Violence
— Brennan Manning, book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11
1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
— Joaquin Phoenix American actor, music video director, producer, musician, and social activist 1974
"Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech in full: 'We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby'" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/10/joaquin-phoenixs-oscars-speech-in-full, The Guardian (February 10, 2020).
— Marc Bekoff American biologist 1945
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
„animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
— George Orwell, book Animal Farm
Variant: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Source: Animal Farm
„I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!“
— Diana Wynne Jones, book Castle in the Air
Source: Castle in the Air
— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
Part III, Ch. VIII, 7, p. 223 https://archive.org/stream/basisofmorality00schoiala#page/223/mode/2up
On the Basis of Morality (1840)
Source: The Basis of Morality
— Henry Beston American writer 1888 - 1968
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
„Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.“
— Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942
— Steven Kotler American journalist 1967
Source: A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
— Henry Beston American writer 1888 - 1968
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
— William C. Roberts American physician 1932
Quoted in Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet, [//books.google.it/books?id=H_clxwd27CgC&pg=PT107 ch. 5]
— Jorja Fox American actress 1968
From a 2008 interview on her involvement with Farm Sanctuary, a charity that rescues abused or neglected animals; as quoted in “'CSI' star fronts new PETA veggie campaign,” in MNN.com (9 November 2011) https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/csi-star-fronts-new-peta-veggie-campaign.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author 1899 - 1990
Source: To Be a Human Being (1989–90)
— Osamu Tezuka Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928 - 1989
From Interview to the author , in Osamu Tezuka, Jumping ; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 4, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 178. ISBN 8888063188
— Thomas Robert Malthus British political economist 1766 - 1834
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
— Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941
2014 interview http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/01/30/ghiblis-hayao-miyazaki-says-the-anime-industrys-problem-is-that-its-full-of-anime-fans/ with Japanese news website Golden Times, 27 January 2014. Translated by RocketNews24 on January 30, 2014.
— Osamu Tezuka Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928 - 1989
Source: http://www.tcj.com/tezuka-osamu-and-american-comics/ Tezuka Osamu and American Comics
— Anna Kingsford English physician, activist and feminist 1846 - 1888
The Perfect Way in Diet (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1881), pp. 13 https://archive.org/stream/perfectwayindie00kinggoog#page/n34-14.
— Woody Harrelson American actor 1961
Letter that he sent to the Army, against the use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises; full text in "Woody Harrelson Fights Army Tests on Chimps", in Usnews.com (13 September 2011) https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/09/13/woody-harrelson-fights-army-tests-on-chimps.
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher 1949
"The Private Production of Defense" http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Hoppe.pdf (15 June 1999)