Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivan Pavlov

The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?

H. G. Wells

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

H. P. Lovecraft

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals -- for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

Gary L. Francione

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Gary L. Francione

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Gary L. Francione

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Gary L. Francione

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

Gary L. Francione

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

Gary L. Francione

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

Jenna Morasca

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

Jennie Garth

I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.

Gloria Estefan

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

Ian Fleming

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

Hugh Howey

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

Horace

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

Homer

Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.

I definitely think there are still a lot of animals that have the minimum score to qualify for the record book. Whether or not it is a new state record you never know, but those records are made to be broken.

Dick Van Patten

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animals.

I don't think there would be any problem from our standpoint with providing an export permit if the animals were going to a place that was suitable for housing the bears.

I don't think the girls realized there's so much to do, taking care of all the animals. It's an all day, every day job.

He's not in pads, but nothing has changed. He's a coach, but the animal is still inside him.

He (Smith) was written up under the dangerous animal code. The humane society didn't take any animals ... they decided they were legally in the kennel.

However, we will continue to work with Canada to locate as many animals of interest in this case as possible.

Robert A. Heinlein

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.

Comdex is a large animal that doesn't have a focus anymore as the industry moves into a wireless and appliance area.

Terry Anderson

Cartoonists tend to be quite lonely, solitary animals and the whole point of the studio when it was founded was offering a team that could do larger pieces of work and larger commissions than a single cartoonist could ever hope to do.

Hunter S. Thompson

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

Hume Cronyn

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.