Quotes about animals
95 quotes from 72 people
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Introduction to Animal Liberation (2015)
Alice Walkerborn 1944Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14.Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don’t eat you anymore.
Franz Kafka1883–1924To a fish, after he became a vegetarian; as quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Winston Churchill1874–1965My early life, 1874–1904 (1930), Churchill, Winston S., p. 45 (1996 Touchstone Edition)The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
Ogden Nash1902–1971Free Wheeling (1931), “The Cow”.I am his Highness’ Dog at Kew;
Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?
Alexander Pope1688–1744“Epigram. Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, which I gave to His Royal Highness” (1738)The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus460–360 BCFreeman (1948), p. 162Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant,
The only harmless great thing.
John Donne1572–1631The Progress of the Soul (1601), stanza 39Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1904), Act INobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
Mark Twain1835–1910What Is Man? (1906), Ch. 6
John Ruskin1819–1900Speech to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #62
