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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
MARTIN BUBER, I and Thou
Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
MARK TWAIN, Letters from the Earth
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Oceana
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden
If we're not supposed to eat animals ... how come they're made out of meat?
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long.
WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER, The Skin of Our Teeth
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWIN, Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.
CHIEF SEATTLE OF THE SUWAMISH TRIBE, letter to President Franklin Pierce
Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
MILAN KUNDERA, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
LEO TOLSTOY, The First Step
For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
CLEVELAND AMORY, The Cat Who Came for Christmas
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER, Mammals
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