animals

animals

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Man is the cruelest animal.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Animal Farm
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. False Memory
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately. Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
Four legs good, two legs bad. Animal Farm