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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be. -- Rudolf Virchow
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The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves. -- Ayn Rand
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you. -- Tamora Pierce
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. -- Victor Hugo
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. -- Walt Disney
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully. -- Terence McKenna
Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true. -- Kodo Sawaki
If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity. -- Jane Goodall
In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a grandmother who has pledged to create heaven on earth for all children, animal and humans with the stolen money we have recovered. -- Roseanne Barr
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting. -- Ian Somerhalder
Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. -- Gabriel Cousens
Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others -- both animal and human -- rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death. -- Russell Simmons
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind. -- Gary L. Francione
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it. -- Dick Gregory
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals, there's no life after death, and there's no purpose to human history. Now, are you trying to tell me that it doesn't really matter if people believe we evolved or not? -- Greg Koukl
The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human. -- Peter Singer
Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut. -- Mark Doty
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish. -- Buddhadasa
Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living. -- Theodor Schwenk
Humans are animals of habit. -- Arundhati Roy
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I foster a lot. Not humans, animals. -- Bellamy Young
Guilt is what separates humans from animals. -- Anna Quindlen
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. -- Ali MacGraw
Having respect for animals makes us better humans.. -- Jane Goodall
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? -- William Golding
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans? -- Stephen Hawking
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God. -- John Henry Newman
Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders. -- Cesar Millan
Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans. -- Jim Fowler
The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency. -- Hal Herzog
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection. -- James Surowiecki
If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. -- Zakir Naik
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. -- Ian Somerhalder
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals. -- Peter Singer
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. -- Georges Bataille
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? -- Brigitte Bardot
Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals. -- Margaret Mitchell
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining. -- Jenna Morasca
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. -- Robert Anton Wilson
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions. -- Marc Bekoff
Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd. -- Yi-Fu Tuan
Besides, animals donâ??t even have time. Only humans have time. Itâ??s what makes us different. -- Douglas Coupland
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. -- Aravind Adiga
Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. -- Peter Steinhart
In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals). -- Peter Singer
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. -- Betty White
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. -- Anna Quindlen
Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do. -- Sabrina Le Beauf
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. -- Chuck Jones
Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the -- Townes Van Zandt
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians. -- Sharon Gannon
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. -- Nadine Gordimer
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity. -- Anthony D. Williams
We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans. -- Peter Singer
I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. -- Belinda Jeffrey
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake. -- Neko Case
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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. -- Michael Shermer
Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul. -- Anthony D. Williams
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. -- George Mikes
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals. -- Robert Thurman
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. -- Frans de Waal
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. -- Jamais Cascio
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. -- Gary L. Francione
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. -- Gary L. Francione
The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think. -- Tom Vanderbilt
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25 -- Yann Martel
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. -- Peter Singer
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust. -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree. -- Nalini Singh
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them. -- Lev S. Vygotsky
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down. -- Jodi Picoult
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. -- C. S. Lewis
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. -- Michael Specter
The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people. -- Wayne Pacelle
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth. -- Shirley MacLaine
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans. -- Brigid Brophy
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. -- Carl Sagan
What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives. -- Chanctetinyea J.J. Ouellette
It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals. -- Gary Yourofsky
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction. -- O. Henry
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films. -- Mike Mills
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. -- James Herriot
I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish. -- John Burnside
I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved. -- Marina Keegan
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans. -- Caroline Knapp
Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans. -- Steven Magee
Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment. -- Surya Das
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves. -- Louis J. Camuti
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. -- Keith Henson
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel -- Robert Anton Wilson
In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet. -- Victor Hugo
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever. -- David Perlmutter
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. -- Sigmund Freud
From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society. -- Tom Cullen
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals. -- Dennis Prager
Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt. -- Richard Jeni
There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists. -- Elizabeth Eiler
We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent. -- Anita Roddick
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans. -- James Stewart
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species. -- Frans de Waal
Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals. -- Michio Kaku
Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals. -- Rhianna Pratchett

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