Top 1200 Animal Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was always an animal lover. Even back in school and college, an animal in need of help was my responsibility.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.

One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty.

Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal and must remember that the rights of that animal supersede human interests. An observer must also keep in mind that an animal's memories of one day's contact might well be reflected in the following day's behavior.

What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

For years, I have traveled all around the country to promote animal welfare, fighting for policies that will finally eliminate unnecessary animal suffering.

At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that.

Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.