Top 1200 Animal Welfare Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

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

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

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

The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV".

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

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.

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

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

Crime associated with our border is a serious threat to the general welfare of real citizens, and after all, isn't it the general welfare of citizens that the Constitution calls upon government to promote?

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

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

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

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

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.

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

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.

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

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

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

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

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

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

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