Tiberius Quotes

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them

Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Animals are not here for our entertainment.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Mending the fence when one loses a sheep is still not too late.

The cow of many, well milked and badly fed.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

There is one fold and one shepherd.

You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.