#animal

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#couple #describe #dogs #i #myself

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ↗

— Anatole France

#animal #loved #part #remains #soul

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. ↗

— Anatole France

#defining #him #makes #man #out

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#different #dogs #eating #else #enjoy

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#animal #because #eat #fur #good

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#existence #his #man #only #own

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#dead #either #fur #i #like

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#almost #animal #any #anytime #blushing

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#both #ears #fence #ground #keep