Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. (Quote by - Confucius)

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

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. (Quote by - Alice Walker)

Oh, absolutely, .. because, you know, the Bible teaches that God made land animals on day six, alongside of Adam and Eve. (Quote by - Ken Ham)

I use animals native to Great Britain, .. The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, furry wonderful creature with big digging claws. I think about how he would talk. He's not a baddie; he's a goodie. (Quote by - Brian Jacques)

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. (Quote by - Jacques Cousteau)

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. (Quote by - David Duchovny)

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. (Quote by - Aristotle)

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)

I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them. (Quote by - Jennie Garth)

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. (Quote by - Ovid)

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. (Quote by - Dakota Fanning)

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. (Quote by - Lou Brock)

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men. (Quote by - Anna Sewell)

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. (Quote by - William Greider)

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. (Quote by - Adriaan Kortlandt)

Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel. (Quote by - Antoine Lavoisier)

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?. (Quote by - Anne Tyler)