#animal

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

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#chick #i #like #more #rock

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#brought #essential #living #own #quality

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

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#another #any #beings #bore #capacity

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#buy #even #fur #glove #god

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#before #had #human #human animal #less

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#anything #continue #doing #impractical #living