Quotes about animals

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The presence of a cat betters the garden wall in summer and the heart when the weather is bad.

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Cats are animals to which I hold the upmost respect. Cats and non-conformists really seem the only beings in this world that have a practical and active conscience.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat.

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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.

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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

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The program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week.

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If hens had a government and a church and a history behing them they would have a detached and disgusted opinion of human joys. If to a man should happen something fun and nice, immediately a rooster looses his head.

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A lot of puppies of these animals will be carried away, ripped and savagely massacred. He who doesn't respect life doesn't deserve it.

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Cats, as a type, have never overcome the superiority complex given by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as Gods.

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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.