Top 1200 Animal Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

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

When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

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

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.

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

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.

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

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

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

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.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

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

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

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

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.

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

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.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

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

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.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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

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

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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.

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

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

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

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

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.

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

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

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

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

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

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

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

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.

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

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

Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"

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.

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

If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see

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

It's always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion - if not for compassion's sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they'll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.