“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.”
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one s soul remains unawakened.”
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
“You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place. That s why animals are so soft and huggy.”
“If you don t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
“...only someone who d never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....”
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
“Animals are such agreeable friends
“Whoever said you can t buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it s a strong one.”
“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”
“Look, PETA! If God hadn t wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn t have made them so darn tasty!”
“Humanity s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
“Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?”
“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It s because they know what it s like to be treated like an animal.”
“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, He s an old soppy really, just poke him if he s a nuisance, and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.”
“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.”