Top 1200 Animal Spirits Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

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

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.

Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.

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.

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.

When I spend time at North Shore Animal League America, I always feel so sad for the cats, especially the kittens. Once they're at North Shore, they're safe and I know they're going to find homes, but it's that time in between that they're in cages and waiting to find homes that breaks my heart and I feel like their spirits are gone.

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

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

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

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.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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

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

In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.

I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'

We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.

Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we've relegated the fantastic as being just imagination and not real and having no purpose.

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

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

Love is connected to the heart. When the Name of God Allah is synchronized with the heartbeat, it then travels through the blood to all the veins, reaches the spirits and awakens them. Then the spirits are rejuvenated and go into the Love of God.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

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.

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

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

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

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.

Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

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

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