animals

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

If we hold genuine moral principles about animals, these will not differ in substance from those we hold about human beings . . . If humans have natural rights, then so do animals.

An individual animal doesn't care if its species is facing extinction - it cares if it is feeling pain.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.