"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
— Ellen DeGeneres

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

"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."
— C.S. Lewis

""After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.""
— Charlotte Gray

"So I'm wondering, do the other cookie animals feel sort of ripped? Like, is the hippo going, "Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity." And you know, the monkey's just, "I mock you with my monkey pants!" And then there's a big coup in the zoo."
— Oz

"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Seven years of college down the drain."
— John Belushi

"
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. "
— George Orwell

"Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world."
— Cesar Millan (Be the Pack Leader: Use CESAR'S WAY to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life)

"all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
— George Orwell

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined."
— Gene Baur (Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food)

"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. "
— Mark Twain (What is Man?)

"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."
— Alice Walker

"I will work harder."
— Boxer, Animal Farm

"The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife."
— William Blake

"Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

"As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal." - "
— Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

"restraint equals indulgence"
— Barbara Kingsolver

"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

"Sure, some find gunning down unsuspecting, innocent animals to be a real hoot. I mean, for Christ sake, they mantle the decapitated, formaldehyde-stuffed heads on the wall. Then, of course, there are the people who enjoy putting sunglasses or hats on it, even putting a blowout in its mouth as if it were an avid party animal. If it had any hands, there would surely be a plastic cup full of cheap beer in it, as well. We can’t forget that it would be named some horrendous name, such as Bill or Frank, something so plain, ordinary, and down-right ridiculous that makes me want to bitch-slap the perpetrators. "
— Chase Brooks

""Animal abuse breaks ones heart

Now don't make me start

Animal slaughther is cruel

The big meanies are fools

What did the animal do to you?

Stop animal abuse!"

Group-Animal abuse"
— Sammy beached

"Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us..."
— Rai Aren (Secret of the Sands)

"Clint Stark: I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.

Ed Cunningham: And what is the truth, Stark?

Clint Stark: It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal. "
— The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao

""In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people."
"
— — Ruth Harrison "Animal Machines"

"Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.”"
— Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver)

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
— Saying of the Gladdagh Gypsies of Galway

"In the preface of "The Rifles"
"Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing." Barnabas Piryuaq
"Well, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created." Jan Welzi 1933. "
— William T. Vollmann (The Rifles)

"The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
— Henry Benston

"It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise"
— Barbara Kingsolver

"The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'"
— Jeremy Bentham