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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)
- Men
- Women
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Anti-God
Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.
Douglas Adams1952–2001
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell1903–1950Animal Farm (1945)
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
?UnattributedOften credited to Leonardo da Vinci
A ‘geek’ by definition is someone who eats live animals….I’ve never eaten live animals.
Crispin Gloverborn 1964
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash1902–1971“A Dog’s Best Friend Is His Illiteracy” in The Private Dining Room (1953)
Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Fate
- Food
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
- Food
- Morality
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709)
- Friendship
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
William Blake1757–1827Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5In context
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge1860–1954“The Idea of Progress”, Romanes Lecture (27 May 1920), reprinted in Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922)
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923)
- Nature
A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), part II, chapter 1, p. 74
- Comedy