„I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.“

— Winston S. Churchill

Christopher Soames, speech at the Reform Club (28 April 1981), reported in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Volume Eight: Never Despair: 1945–1965. p. 304
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Context: [Christopher Soames, Churchill's future son-in-law, remembered] Churchill showing him around Chartwell Farm [around 1946]. When they came to the piggery Churchill scratched one of the pigs and said: I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

— Mike White (filmmaker)

“ Mike White's 'Veggie Testimonial' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8PJJFgg4E”, ad for PETA (30 July 2009).

Love, Pain, Dogs, Hope

„Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?“

— Robin Hobb, book Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

„A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?“

— Charles Stross, book Accelerando

If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?
Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147

Parting

„I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals. And in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig is a bear..... is a boy“

— Philip Wollen Australian philanthropist 1950

"Animals Should Be Off the Menu" (2012)

Dogs, Boy, Suffering

„The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.“

— George Orwell, book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

For Men

„My shoe has caught a Pig
I am a Pig Trap“

— Spike Hawkins British writer 1943

Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm

Shoe

„Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.“

— Robert Browning, Rabbi ben Ezra

Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 175.

„When he was a little boy, my father had a dog – a German shepherd named Rex. He was very fond of the dog and would ride around the garden on its back. Around the same time, the Rowlands family also had a pig. History does not record the name of this pig, and perhaps it never had a name. But, nameless or not, my father was very fond of it and would ride around the garden on its back. Rex, by all accounts, lived a long and happy life. Things went a little differently for the pig. I relate this story not only because it provided my first brush with the idea of animal rights ('What happened to the pig, Dad?') but also because, if you look closely enough, you will find the basic moral case for animals encapsulated tightly within it. Ethics is many things, but it's hardly rocket science. In the end, most of it is pretty obvious. The moral case for animals … is about as obvious as this: the differential treatment of Rex and pig is a bit strange.“

— Mark Rowlands British philosopher 1962

Animal Rights: All That Matters https://books.google.it/books?id=6YA3R0J69E8C&pg=PT0 (Hachette UK, 2013), ch. 1.

Life, Family, Dogs, History

„There wouldn't be a swine flu if we treated the pigs better!“

— Jim Carrey Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer 1962

Swine

„So were our ancestors apes, pigs, or dogs? That's up to you and your imagination, if you believe in evolution.“

— Ray Comfort New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

Dogs, Imagination

„[As a vegan] I feel sexy. I feel confident. I’m healthier than ever. And my body is better than ever. … What upsets me the most is the way animals are treated. There’s no difference between a cat and a dog and a pig and a cow. They’re all individuals that have their own fears and desires and personalities.“

— Sofía Sisniega Mexican actress 1989

“Sofía Sisniega Gets Naked for Animals,” interview with PETA Latino (August 2017) https://www.petalatino.com/en/features/sofia-sisniega-gets-naked-animals/.

Fear, Dogs, Way, Feeling

„Those who live with pigs often speak of them as we normally speak of dogs—intelligent, loyal, and above all, affectionate. Each one, I am continually reminded by people who know them, is a complete individual, like no other pig.“

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson American writer and activist 1941

Source: The Pig Who Sang to the Moon (2003), Ch. 1, p. 52

People, Dogs, Intelligence

„… I think I'm a pig: Pigs have got eyes, pigs have got mouths, pigs have got teeth, I've got friends who eat like pigs, I sound like a pig when I sleep.“

— Ray Comfort New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949

AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants

Thinking, Sleep

„A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.“

— Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)

Boy

„Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.“

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 112

Cats

„I am well content as an Assistant Pig-Keeper.“

— Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Context: “Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king — every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once,” he added, “you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
“Once, I hoped for a glorious destiny,” Taran went on, smiling at his own memory. “That dream has vanished with my childhood; and though a pleasant dream it was fit only for a child. I am well content as an Assistant Pig-Keeper.”

„A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.“

— Theodore Sturgeon, book Venus Plus X

Section 38 (p. 118)
Venus Plus X (1960)

People

„I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?“

— Charles Portis, book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 29 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

Cats, Evil, Heart, Horse