#animals

"Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle"

"If you see me pushing a wheelbarrow full of animal balloons up a hill, it may be a Zen koan, or it may be buy two get a third for FREE."

"Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected."

"My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk."

"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."

"People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way."

"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

"May all that have life be delivered from suffering"

"God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man."

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

"I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?"

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."

"We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them."

"Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them."

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

"Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism."

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."