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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind."
"Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs."
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
"My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration."
"I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?"
"We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel."
"If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him."
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."
"If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes."
"Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart."
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
"There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans."
"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
