Animal Intelligence
Do animals have emotions,
consciousness, creative abilities?
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical
concept of animals... In a world older and more complete than
ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions
of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices
we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not
underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the
net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and
travail of the earth.  Henry Beston
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great
language.  Martin Buber
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature and its beauty.  Albert Einstein
You enter into a certain
amount of madness when
you marry a person with
pets.  Nora Ephron
"The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people
exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering
in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great
impoverishment of the human spirit."

I have always had a deep love for animals, and could never
understand when others mistreated them, or were indifferent to
them. I know I have often felt my spirit diminished by their
indifference.  Ashley Montagu
Until one has loved an animal, a part of
one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France
Life is as dear to a
mute creature as it is
to man. Just as one
wants happiness and
fears pain, just as
one wants to live and
not die, so do other
creatures.

His Holiness The
Dalai Lama
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though....
That's the problem.

Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test
(which lies deeply buried from view), consists
of its attitude towards those who are at its
mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind
has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle
so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of
Being
I am in favor of animal
rights as well as human
rights. That is the way of a
whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their
affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal.
Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert
It is much easier to show compassion to animals.
They are never wicked.  Haile Selassie
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from
the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will
deal likewise with their fellow men.  St. Francis of Assisi
I think animal testing is
a terrible idea; they get
all nervous and give the
wrong answers.

Unknown Author
Animals have these advantages
over man: They have no
theologians to instruct them,
their funerals cost them nothing,
and no one starts lawsuits over
their wills.  Voltaire
Of all the creatures, man is
the most detestable. Of the
entire brood, he is the only
one that possesses malice.
He is the only creature that
inflicts pain for sport,
knowing it to be pain. The
fact that man knows right
from wrong proves his
intellectual superiority to the
other creatures; but the fact
that he can do wrong proves
his moral inferiority to any
creature that cannot.  Mark
Twain
There are no wild animals until man makes them so.  Mark Twain
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.” Winston S. Churchill

All men are intrinsically rascals, and I am only sorry that not
being a dog I can’t bite them. Lord Byron
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.
Cats have never forgotten this." ~ Anonymous