Quotes about animal
animal air water
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses Gary Snyder
animal soul solitude
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. Gary Snyder
animal patterns conspiracy
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all. Christopher Hitchens
animal brain research
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. Christine O'Donnell
animal humanity gestures
And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself Chris Marker
animal steak
Favorite animal: steak. Fran Lebowitz
animal two legs
Four legs good, two legs bad. George Orwell
animal night pigs
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples. George Orwell
animal causes farms
No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. George Orwell
animal half tyranny
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. George Orwell
animal light environmental
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
animal numbers bird
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible. Fyodor Dostoevsky
animal vegetarianism joy
Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Fyodor Dostoevsky
animal men people
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoevsky
animal philosopher cynicism
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. Friedrich Nietzsche
animal mind age
The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals. Friedrich Nietzsche
animal needs fool
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. Franz Grillparzer
animal snakes skins
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake. Franz Grillparzer
animal snakes want
I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree. Jethro Tull
animal people needs
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. Jeannette Walls
animal feet pet-loss
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? George Eliot
animal years people
There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits. Gary Player
animal air blood
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity. Franz Marc
animal long people
Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should. Frank Kameny
animal space squirrels
Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.
animal judgement humanity
Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement. Christian Morgenstern
animal people choices
...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice. Chris Higgins
animal instinct deals
I rely a great deal on animal instincts. George Soros
animal opposites competition
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth. George Reisman
animal pleasure masters
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. George Orwell
animal thinking law
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else. George Orwell
animal dignity evolution
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. George Orwell
animal slavery misery
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. George Orwell