#animal

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. ↗

— David Sedaris

#deer #possessions #funny

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chinese #civilisation #principle #systematic #wild

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

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#every #every time #get #hands #life

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#condone #i #indefinitely #life #may