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The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

James Cromwell

Attitude

Animals

Pets

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Animals

Man

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Animals

Man

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

John Cleese

God

Animals

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton