Quotes: animals
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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
1929-2007
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
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Ouida
English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé
1839-1908
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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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.
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