Animals Quotes

"I think penguins are cute."

"I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them."

"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

George Eliot

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

Martin Buber

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."

Charles Darwin

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

"Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know."

Irene Pepperberg

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."

Alfred A. Montapert

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

James Herriot

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."

Gregory Maguire

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

Alice Walker

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

Francis of Assisi

"Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children."

Michael Morpurgo

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Immanuel Kant

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them."

Elvis Presley

"Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural."

Trisha McCagh

"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though. That's the problem."

Benjamin Hoff

"To my mind, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals.”