Quotes about Animals

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.

God answered the prayers of animals.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

According to him the faculty of choice distinguishes humans from irrational animals. We can make considered choices among 'impressions' or 'appearances', meaning anything that comes within range of our senses, together with whatever thoughts and feelings these sensations evoke. While all animals are subject to impressions, those of humans differ by virtue of the fact that we possess the power of language and reason (both faculties expressed by the single word logos).

And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.