Animal Hierarchy Quotes

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat's food.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

Lions make leopards tame.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

A cat may look at a king.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species through intimidation. That's why the single most important thing you can do as a human is to dominate an animal. Need more proof?Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. I'd say that about covers it.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.