The 61 best quotes about animals

Several reflections on our companions of life on planet Earth.

In this selection of animal phrases is captured that sensitivity towards other living beings so necessary in our days. Most of these aphorisms and reflections are a legacy of important people in history, such as Elvis Presley, Arthur Schopenhauer or George Orwell.

The best quotes about animals

We often forget that we share this world with other beings, beings that also have needs and accompany us in our daily lives. We consider them inferior but they have a lot to teach us, and perhaps through these phrases about animals we can understand them better.

1. The animals of the world exist for their own reason. They were not made for humans (Alice Walker)

Everyone has a particularity.

2. People who really appreciate animals always ask for their names (Lilian Jackson Braun).

An observation on the affection for these beings.

3. Animals are born the way they are, they accept it and that's all. They live more peacefully than people (Gregory Maguire).

There is some sense of harmony in the lives of animals.

4. Our perfect companions are never less than four-legged (Colette)

In allusion to dogs or cats.

5. Animals are not property or things, but living organisms, subjects of a life, deserving of our compassion, respect, friendship and support (Marc Bekoff).

A philosophical reflection on the relationship that unites us with these living beings.

6. I am in favor of the right of animals, just as I am in favor of the right of humans. That is the way of a complete human being (Abraham Lincoln)

A way to recognize the needs of animals.

7. The eyes of an animal have the power to speak a great language (Martin Buber).

One of the most intuitive languages.

8. I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did, I would think of it as full of people who were cruel to animals (Gary Larson).

To mistreat an animal is typical of a person without humanity.

9. Animals are very good friends; they don't ask questions, they don't criticize (George Eliot)

...and they always show loyalty.

10. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated (Mahatma Gandhi).

A good example of a sensitized society.

11. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened (Anatole France)

Giving love to an animal strengthens us.

12. If having a soul means being able to feel love, loyalty and gratitude, animals are better than many humans (James Herriot).

On the morality of these beings.

13. If you pick up a hungry dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the main difference between a dog and a man (Mark Twain).

What a great lesson in loyalty dogs give us.

14. Animals are reliable, loving, affectionate, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Rules that are difficult for people to follow (Alfred A. Montapert).

We should learn from their spontaneity and naturalness.

15. You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals (Paul McCartney).

An observation on how to identify sensitivity and nobility.

16. Animals are like people because people are animals (Barbara T. Gates)

Let's not forget that we are just like them in some ways.

17. Apart from a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog is too black to read (Groucho Marx)

A phrase about animals that shows us the relationship between dog and human being.

18. Dogs never bite me, only humans do (Marilyn Monroe)

Hostility is a constant in human relationships.

19. Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends (George Bernard Shaw)

A phrase about veganism.

20. Some people talk to animals. Not many listen to them. That's the problem (A.A. Milne)

Knowing how to interpret their needs is essential.

21. Man is the cruelest animal (Friedrich Nietzsche)

This phrase of Nietzsche, goes directly to judge human nature.

22. Animals do not hate and we are supposed to be better than them (Elvis Presley).

There are many noble aspects that we don't often notice in animals.

23. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being (Mahatma Gandhi).

Every life is important and special.

24. If a man aspires to lead a right life, his first act of abstinence is from harming animals (Leo Tolstoy).

We know that they cannot defend themselves, and sometimes that creates situations of cruelty.

25. Four legs; good, two legs; bad (George Orwell)

A nice sentence in which the animal presence is valued.

26. We do not need to eat animals, to clothe ourselves, to use them for entertainment purposes and our only defense for those uses is our pleasure, amusement and convenience (Gary L. Francione).

For Francione this is an unhealthy and selfish habit.

27. Horses make a landscape look beautiful (Alice Walker)

An aesthetic appreciation of these equines.

28. Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character and it may be asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man (Arthur Schopenhauer).

This sentence about animals exposes a very common reality.

29. To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than beasts (Ruskin Bond).

Capabilities that we should share with them.

30. When man has pity on all living creatures, only then will he be noble (Buddha)

...for he will be able to put himself in the place of the other.

Only animals were not expelled from paradise (Milan Kundera).

Another one of those animal phrases that extol their good nature.

32. Animals are sensitive, intelligent, funny and entertaining. We should care for them as we do for children (Michael Morpurgo).

That is why they are considered our younger brothers and sisters.

33. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking the life of the animal simply for the sake of his appetite (Leo Tolstoy).

This phrase by Tolstoy also appeals to veganism to preserve the lives of animals.

34. Everyone's pet is the best. That engenders mutual blindness (Jean Cocteau).

It is like when we fall in love.

35. Finally I know what distinguishes a man from an animal; financial worries (Romain Roland)

A detail that has often made us feel a small dose of envy.

36. We don't really know anything about love if we don't love animals (Fred Wander)

Interesting reflection on a type of love that we tend to ignore.

37. Love for living creatures is the noblest attribute of man.

Love is also understanding, and speaks well of ourselves.

38. The best thing about animals is that they don't talk too much (Thornton Wilder).

Their silent company is soothing.

39. Truly man is the king of animals, for his brutality surpasses theirs (Leonardo Da Vinci).

With all the characteristics that a king can have.

40. Intelligence is denied to animals only by those who lack it (Arthur Schopenhauer).

An interesting reflection by this famous philosopher.

41. Animals are of God. Bestiality is human (Victor Hugo)

A distribution of characteristics according to criteria based on theology.

42. Who loves the animals loves the human being (Unknown Author)

To give love to a being that we cannot understand with words is a great show of empathy. a great sign of empathy.

43. Let all that has life be freed from suffering (Buddha)

Even from suffering caused by ourselves.

44. The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of humanity (George Bernard Shaw).

Not realizing their difficulties, needs and presence can be fatal.

45. Man can measure the value of his own soul in the grateful glance of an animal he has helped (Plato).

In that look he is showing his heart.

46. Like us, animals have feelings and the same needs for food, water, shelter and friendship.

Anonymous animal phrase that talks about the emotional side of these the emotional side of these living beings.

47. When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it sport. When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it ferocity (George Bernard Shaw).

We must analyze how we normalize some inhuman activities.

48. The question is not can they speak, but can they suffer? (Jeremy Bentham)

A basic question for Bentham's utilitarian philosophy.

49. There will come a day when men will see the killing of an animal as they now see the killing of a man (Leonardo da Vinci).

And sadly that is happening.

50. Animals do not lie. Animals do not criticize. If animals had bad mood days, they would handle them better than humans (Betty White).

About the ability to manage emotions.

51. It is incredible and shameful that neither preachers nor moralists raise their voices any higher against animal abuse (Voltaire).

A situation that Voltaire exhibits before our usual posture, to protect the aninals.

52. Monkeys are too good for man to descend from them (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nietzsche ironizes about the character of the human being.

52. Having an animal in your life makes you a better human (Rachel Ray)

It is an experience that often connects us with our best emotions.

53. It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never mean (Haile Selassie)

In their behavior there is no mean intention against us.

As long as the circle of his compassion does not embrace all living beings, man will not find peace for himself (Albert Schweitzer).

We must be in balance with all beings on this planet.

55. A kind man feeds his animals before he sits down to eat (Hebrew proverb).

It is an act of respect for the animal.

56. First it was necessary to civilize man in his relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in his relationship with nature and animals (Victor Hugo).

It is very necessary to make it viable.

57. The zoo is the place for animals to study the behavior of human beings.

A different way of seeing things.

58. Every species is a masterpiece, a creation made with extreme care and genius (Edward O. Wilson).

Each being surprises us both by its physical qualities and by the behaviors it develops in order to adapt.

59. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others (George Orwell).

Some manage to mimic humans.

60. Man is the only animal that eats without being hungry, drinks without being thirsty and speaks without having anything to say (Mark Twain).

A curious reflection in which animals seem to be the perfect companions.

61. If all the animals were gone, man would die of a great spiritual loneliness, for whatever happens to animals, also happens to man. Everything is connected

Beautiful anonymous phrase that shows us the importance of animals in the life of the human being.