“are overly aggressive and pose an unacceptable risk to people and other animals.”
Bob Cameron
“Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends”
George Bernard Shaw
“Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.”
Winifred Carriere
“I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs... [They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”
James Herriot
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
Theophile Gautier
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost”
Voltaire
“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”
Confucius