Animals Quotes

Tigers of course have solitary habits And haunt where brown and yellow leaves are strown; They’re not companionable beasts like rabbits And much prefer to eat their meals alone.

Animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. (Karol Wojtyla)

No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

But if we stop loving animals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. ‘You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?’ she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, ‘I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too.’

Then, as usual, the sheep broke into ‘Four legs good, two legs bad!’ and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

And now, comrades, I will tell you about my dream of last night. I cannot describe that dream to you. It was a dream of the earth as it will be when man has vanished. (“Animal Farm”)

There is no beast in wolf or lion or serpent that is so brutish as the beast in man. According to the Levitical law, he that touched a dead animal was unclean till evening, but he who touched a dead man was unclean seven days. For man is a seven times more polluting creature than […]