Russell Hoban Quotes

We're all animals.

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

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

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

I've just always loved animals.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.