Quotes of Bestial - somelinesforyou

“ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ”

- George Orwell

“ Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. ”

- Paul Harvey

“ They're very, very cautious animals. ”

- David Baker

“ To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ”

- George W. Bush

“ All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. ”

- Richard Dawkins

“ Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ”

- Robert Brault

“ Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ The best thing about animals is they don't talk much. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. ”

- Mario Vargas Llosa

“ If we're not supposed to eat animals... how come they're made out of meat? ”

- Unknown

“ They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. ”

- Neil Armstrong

“ I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things… ”

- Walt Whitman

“ We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity. ”

- Andrew Linzey
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