For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
