- An animal’s end is slaughter.~ Yiddish Proverb
- An animal will always look for a person’s intentions by looking them right in the eyes.~ H. Powers
- Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.~ Joseph Addison
- Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no rights!!~ Shirley Lord
- Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.~ Georg Hegel
- Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.~ George Eliot
- Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.~ François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- Animals often strike us as passionate machines.~ Eric Hoffer
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.~ Aristotle
- Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.~ D. H. Lawrence
- Better to be watched by a wild animal than a nosey man.~ Berber Proverb
- Do not eat before you have fed your animal.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.~ Pierre De Beaumarchais
- Every animal knows more than you do.~ American Proverb
- Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation.~ Radar O’Reilly
- Four legs good, two legs bad.~ George Orwell
- I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.~ Joe E. Lewis
- I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason — as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.~ King Asoka of India
- Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.~ Denis Diderot
- In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.~ Thomas Szasz
- It takes two days to learn everything about a man; to know animals you will need more time.~ Iranian Proverb
- Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.~ Francis Picabia
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.~ Albert Schweitzer
- Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this — one dog does not change a bone with another.~ Adam Smith
- Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.~ Charles Lamb
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.~ Samuel Butler
- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.~ William Hazlitt
- Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.~ Mark Twain
- Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.~ William Hazlitt
- Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.~ Thomas Love Peacock
- Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.~ Russell Hoban
- Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.~ Anatole France
- Sometimes the cry of the animal is worse than the animal itself.~ French Proverb
- The best thing about animals is they don’t talk much.~ Thornton Wilder
- The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.~ American Proverb
- Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, “love” them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.~ Edwin Way Teale
- You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.~ Deborah Boliver Boehm
