Quotes: animals

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Aristotle
Greek philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist 1929-2007

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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.
George Orwell
English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950

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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
Joseph Addison
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Ouida
English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé 1839-1908

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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.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950

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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
Joseph Addison
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719

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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.
George Orwell
English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950

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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
Byron Howard

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'Zootopia' features such a large and diverse range of characters - one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.
George Orwell
English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Samuel Butler
English poet 1612-1680

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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
English poet 1612-1680

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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Bjarke Ingels

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All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian playwright, poet and essayist 1862-1949

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Bruce Jackson

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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.