The 61 best animal phrases
In this selection of animal phrases This sensitivity towards the other living beings so necessary in our days is reflected. Most of these aphorisms and reflections are a legacy of important people in history, such as Elvis Presley, Arthur Schopenhauer or George Orwell.
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The best phrases about animals
Many times we forget that we share this world with other beings, beings who also have needs and accompany us in our daily lives. We consider them inferior but they have a lot to teach us, and maybe 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)
Each one has a particularity.
2. People who really appreciate animals always ask their names (Lilian Jackson Braun)
An observation about the affection towards these beings.
3. Animals are born as they are, accept it and that is all. They live with greater peace than people (Gregory Maguire)
There is a certain sense of harmony in the life of animals.
4. Our perfect companions never have less than four legs (Colette)
In allusion to dogs or cats.
5. Animals are not properties or things, but living organisms, subjects of a life, that deserve our compassion, respect, friendship and support (Marc Bekoff)
A philosophical reflection on the relationship that unites us to these living beings.
6. I am in favor of the right of animals, as well as human rights. That is the path 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 do not 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)
Mistreating an animal is typical of a person without humanity.
9. Animals are very good friends; does not ask questions, does not 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 to know a sensitized society.
11. Until one has not loved an animal, a part of the soul still does not wake up (Anatole France)
Delivering 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.
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13. If you pick up a hungry dog and you make it prosperous, it will not bite you. That's the main difference between a dog and a man (Mark Twain)
What a great lesson of loyalty the dogs give us.
14. The animals are reliable, they are full of love, affective, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult rules to follow for people (Alfred A. Montapert)
We should learn from his spontaneity and naturalness.
15. You can judge the true character of a man by the way he treats his animal companions (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 the same as them in some aspects.
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 the dog and the human being.
18. Dogs never bite me, only humans (Marilyn Monroe)
Hostility is a constant in human relationships.
19. Animals are my friends and I do not eat my friends (George Bernard Shaw)
A phrase about veganism .
20. Some people talk to animals. Not many hear them. That is the problem (A.A. Milne)
Knowing how to interpret your needs is essential.
21. Man is the most cruel animal (Friedrich Nietzsche)
This phrase of Nietzsche, goes directly to judge human nature.
22. Animals do not hate and we're supposed to be better than them (Elvis Presley)
There are many noble aspects that we do not 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)
All life is important and special.
24. If a man aspires to lead a correct life, his first act of abstinence is to harm animals (Leo Tolstoy)
We know that they can not defend themselves, and sometimes that creates situations of cruelty.
25. Four legs; good, two legs; bad (George Orwell)
A nice phrase in which the animal presence is valued.
26We do not need to eat animals, get dressed, use them for entertainment purposes and our only defense for those uses is our pleasure, fun and convenience (Gary L. Francione)
For Francione this is an insane 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 can be affirmed that one who is cruel to animals can not be a good man (Arthur Schopenhauer)
This phrase about animals exposes a very common reality.
29. Being able to laugh and be merciful are the only things that make man better than beasts (Ruskin Bond)
Capacities that we must share with them.
30. When man takes pity on all living creatures, only then will he be noble (Buddha)
... since he will be able to put himself in the place of the other.
31. Only the animals were not expelled from paradise (Milan Kundera)
Another of those animal phrases that praise their kind nature .
32. Animals are sensitive, intelligent, fun and entertaining. We must take care of them as we do with children (Michael Morpurgo)
That is why they are considered our younger brothers.
33. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals to eat. 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 of Tolstoy also appeals to veganism to preserve the life of animals.
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34. Everyone's pet is the best. That breeds mutual blindness (Jean Cocteau)
It's like when we fell in love.
35. Finally it is what distinguishes a man from an animal; Financial worries (Romain Roland)
A detail that many times has made us feel a small dose of envy.
36. We do not really know anything about love if we do not love animals (Fred Wander)
Interesting reflection on a type of love that we usually ignore.
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37. Love for living creatures is the noblest attribute of man (Charles Darwin)
Love is also understanding, and speaks well of ourselves.
38. The best thing about animals is that they do not talk too much (Thornton Wilder)
His silent company is relaxing.
39. Really man is the king of animals, because his brutality exceeds that of these (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 on the part of this famous philosopher.
41. The animals are of God. Bestiality is human (Víctor Hugo)
A distribution of characteristics according to criteria based on theology.
42. Who loves animals loves the human being (Author unknown)
Delivering love to a being that we can not understand with words is a great show of empathy .
43. That all that has life be freed from suffering (Buddha)
Even of the suffering caused by ourselves.
44. The worst sin towards 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 look directed to him by an animal he has succored (Plato)
In that look he is showing his heart.
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46. Like us, animals have feelings and the same needs for food, water, shelter and friendship
Phrase about anonymous animals that talks about the emotional facet of these living beings .
47. When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it a sport. When the tiger wants to kill him he calls it ferocity (George Bernard Shaw)
We must analyze how we normalize some inhumane activities.
48. The question is not, can you talk? 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 murder of an animal as they now see that of a man (Leonardo da Vinci)
And sadly that is happening.
50. Animals do not lie. The animals do not criticize. If the 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 more against abuses towards animals (Voltaire)
A situation that Voltaire exhibits before our usual position, to protect the aninales.
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 connects us frequently with our best emotions.
53. It is much easier to show compassion towards animals. They are never bad (Haile Selassie)
In his behavior there is no mean intention against us.
54 While the circle of his compassion does not embrace all living beings, man will not find peace on his own (Albert Schweitzer)
We must be in balance with all beings on this planet.
55. The kind man feeds his animals before sitting down to eat (Hebrew proverb)
It is an act of respect towards the animal .
56. First it was necessary to civilize man in his relationship with man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in his relationship with nature and animals (Víctor Hugo)
It is very necessary to make it viable.
57. The zoo is the place of animals to study the behavior of human beings
A different way of seeing things.
58. Each species is a masterpiece, a creation made with extreme care and genius (Edward O. Wilson)
Each being surprises us as much by its physical qualities as by the behaviors that it develops 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 hunger, drinks without thirst 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 great spiritual loneliness, since anything that 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.
