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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
US novelist (1944 - )

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Shermer

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Froude

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty.

Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)

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