Quotes with animals

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  • Bea Arthur Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • John Gay Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Benjamin Hoff Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Bea Arthur Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Captain Beefheart Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Ayn Rand Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Adam Smith Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bryan Callen My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
    Headlong hall (1816)
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Russell Hoban 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
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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