Animal Quotes...

*** Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~Charles R. Magel ***

*** God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien ***

*** We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922 ***

*** The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham ***

*** I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~Abraham Lincoln ***

*** No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks ***

*** Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~Rue McClanahan ***

*** 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 ***

*** Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~Albert Schweitzer ***

*** Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez ***

*** Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated ***

*** I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ~Ellen DeGeneres ***

*** If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner? ~As seen on a shirt at veganstore.com ***

*** The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906 ***

*** Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990 ***

*** Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990 ***

*** I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ~Mark Twain ***

*** I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. ~Mahatma Gandhi ***

*** When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. ~George Bernard Shaw ***

*** If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? ~Attributed to George Bernard Shaw ***

*** If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ~St. Francis of Assisi ***

Now in my opinion, so many great people cannot be wrong...don't you think?
Smilingly,
Twinky.

Story Submissions

Hi all,

Calling out to all who have an animal story to tell...Please write to me at majumdarshreyasi@yahoo.com with your exceptional animal story in less than 1200 words, and Ill publish it on my blog...but prerequisite---it has to have soul and character!

Tell the world about your animal encounters!

Twinky.