Animal quotes

Animal

6.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

6.3K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside animal — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Men 68.6K quotes Thinking 95.1K quotes People 100.4K quotes Dog 4.6K quotes Cat 2.5K quotes Children 25.4K quotes

Quote collection

Animal quotes (page 85 of 316)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Katie Cleary Model/Actress
Animal

"To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare organizations around the world, and by signing petitions, starting your own campaigns, rescuing and fostering animals, organizing cleanups, recycling, volunteering at your local animal shelter, going to eco-tourist destinations or photo safaris. This will help get the word out to the masses, and hopefully, this will bring more awareness and more compassion to animal welfare."

Animal Media Compassion
Read quote 3 likes
Katie Cleary Model/Actress
Animal

"Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm."

Heart Animal Compassion
Read quote 3 likes
Katie Cleary Model/Actress
Animal

"I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice."

Thinking Moving Animal
Read quote 3 likes
Francis Lawrence Director
Animal

"I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish."

Light Animal Missing
Read quote 3 likes
Animal

"Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names."

Moving Animal Sight
Read quote 3 likes
Animal

"It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down."

School Animal Spring
Read quote 3 likes
Animal

"In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle."

Animal Invincible Harlem
Read quote 3 likes
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Animal

"The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another."

Moving Mother Animal
Read quote 3 likes
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Animal

"But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks."

Animal Sex Husband
Read quote 3 likes
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Animal

"The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses."

Men Self Animal
Read quote 3 likes
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Animal

"When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations."

Thinking May Animal
Read quote 3 likes
Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
Animal

"Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem."

Funny Animal Confused
Read quote 3 likes
Nikki Reed Actress
Animal

"What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars."

War Animal Ocean
Read quote 3 likes
Marie Lu Author
Animal

"He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you."

Mean Eye Animal
Read quote 3 likes
Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
Animal

"There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And there was me, the thinker, the intellectual boxer. So there was something for every fan, if you like. The public could always identify with one of us."

Animal Hero Intellectual
Read quote 3 likes
Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Animal

"If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed."

Men Animal Passion
Read quote 3 likes