Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.

Michael Pollan

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

Sheridan Smith

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

Seth MacFarlane

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

Tom Cullen

From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.

Sitting Bull

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Siri Hustvedt

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Rajneesh

With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

Rajneesh

Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.

Michael Shermer

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

John Paul Jones

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Norman Jewison

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

Norman Jewison

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

Noel Redding

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

Noel Fisher

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is.

Nina Fedoroff

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

Mike Tyson

If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Mike Tyson

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

John Muir

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

John Muir

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

John the Apostle

My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

John Ruskin

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

John Steinbeck

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

John Steinbeck

The human is the only guilty animal.

John Steinbeck

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don’t like being here with these people and animals. I’m going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It’s risking our safety for a chance at something better. Don’t let your fears shape your reality because no matter how cautious you are, someone or something always sneaks in the back door to manifest that fear. Better to face it and defeat it than to let it attack you unawares. (Maxis)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

Nicolas Cage

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Nick Clooney

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.