When fishes flew and forests walked, And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood, Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will, Starve, scourge, deride […]
Animals Quotes
The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Then, (said (Johnson),) the pigs are a race unjustly calumniated. Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig. We do not allow time for his education, we kill him at a year old.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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.
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape-he is a shaper of the landscape.
Isn’t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions (9 billion in the U.S. alone in 1996) and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all these animals leads to […]
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
