John Lydon Quotes

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

I hate zoos.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

I rescued a dog. It was a beautiful.

I'm an animal lover.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) carries out direct action against animal abuse in the form of rescuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually through the damage and destruction of property.

Prevent the torture and murder of our animal brothers and sisters