The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
When I became aware of how inhumane it is to test on animals, I made a commitment not to buy anything that was.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.
The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
