If the soul is the ability to love, be faithful and grateful, then animals have her more than many people. - James Herriot

The greatness and moral progress of a nation can be measured by how that nation is treated to animals... - Mahatma Gandhi

Even in my youth, I renounced meat-eating, and the time will come when people, like me, will look at the killer of animals in the same way as they do now at the killer of man. - Leonardo da Vinci

Vernadsky is an amazing Person, he spoke 15 languages ​​!!
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, a thinker and naturalist, believed that Man would change in the future.
The day will come when Man will not eat plants and animals, but He, like plants, will use the energy of sunlight and synthesize vitamins and minerals necessary for the construction of His body.
- Vladimir Vernadsky

A fur coat is a cemetery. A true woman will not carry around a cemetery. - Brigitte Bardot

Don't leave animals ... please, they are the most loyal and love you no matter who you are or how much money you have.
- Elchin Safarli

"There are feelings in the animal world too, and they are much deeper than in humans, because they come from the heart, and not because of profit."

If only humans could love the way cats love, the world would be a paradise.

If only once a person realizes the possibility of doing without animal food, this will mean not only a fundamental economic revolution, but also a noticeable progress in the morality and ethics of society. - Maurice Maeterlinck

For it is impossible to animals come up with human yardstick... Their world is older than ours and more perfect, and they themselves are more complete and perfect beings than you and me ... Animals- no less our brothers and not poor relatives; they are other peoples who together with us fell into the network of life, into the network of time; just like us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering. "
- Henry Beston, naturalist writer.

Cruelty towards animals cannot exist where people are truly educated, nor where true scholarship reigns. This cruelty is one of the most characteristic sins of a base and ignoble people. - Alexander Humboldt

True human culture is possible only if not only cannibalism, but any enjoyment of meat is considered cannibalism. - Wilhelm Busch

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends! - J. Bernard Shaw

You just dined; and how carefully, at a respectful distance of several or many kilometers, a slaughterhouse would not be hidden, - You are an accomplice. "- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the suffering that man inflicts on animals will return again to man. - Pythagoras

Thanks to a purely physical effect on human temperament, a vegetarian way of life would be able to dramatically influence the fate of humanity. - Albert Einstein

All living things are afraid of torment all living things are afraid of death; know yourself not only in man, but in every living being, do not kill and do not cause suffering and death. All living things want what you do; understand yourself in every living being.
- Buddha Shakyamuni.

Poor crushed the insect suffers the same like a dying giant.
- William Shakespeare

I argue that scientists have not yet discovered the full nutritional potential that the leaves, fruits and seeds of plants can give to mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

When 70-year-old George Bernard Shaw was once asked how he felt on a vegetarian diet, he replied: “Great! Only the doctors are bothering me, they say all the time that I will die without meat! " When, 20 years later, the same man asked Shaw about his current state of health, he exclaimed, “Excellent! you know, all those doctors who unanimously asserted that I would die if I did not eat meat - they themselves have long since died, so no one bothers me anymore! "

Humanity is not defined by how we treat other people. Humanity is defined by how we handle with animals.
- Chuck Palahniuk

It cannot be said that people have become like animals. This is offensive to animals.

"Vegetarianism- a worthy way to get rid of barbaric habits "
- Nikola Tesla.

"...it is forbidden to animals fit with human standards. Their world is older than ours and more perfect, and they themselves are more complete and perfect beings than you and me. Animals- no less brothers and not poor relatives, they are other peoples who have fallen with us into the network of life, into the network of time; just like us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering "
- Henry Beston

"Behold, I have given you every herb that sows seed that is on all the earth, and every tree that has tree fruit that sows seed: this will be your food."
(- Bible, Genesis 1:29)

"This is an everlasting law in all your generations; in all your dwellings, eat no tallow and no blood."
(- Bible, Leviticus 3:17)

"It is absolutely impossible to gain health, happiness, longevity and, most importantly, the joy of life, destroying and exploiting all other beautiful pure creatures for devouring and other dirty human deeds: for clothing, medicine, hunting, in circuses, zoos"
- Stanislav Zaborovsky, animal rights activist.

Meat food its influence on the subtle body of the mind destroys the voice of conscience in a person, as a result, the ability to distinguish between bad and good is lost.
-Torsunov Oleg Gennadievich

"And if anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers that is among you, eat any blood, then I will turn my face on his soul, whoever will eat blood, and I will destroy it from her people."
(- Bible, Leviticus 17:10)

"The one who stabs the ox is the same as the one who kills the person"
- Bible, Isaiah 66: 3

Do not quit animals... please, they are the most loyal and love you no matter who you are or how much money you have.
- Elchin Safarli

The world is so rich, so beautiful with all the luxury of its gifts for our happiness - why should we darken it with murders, shedding blood? Is it really possible to live with a clear conscience as a murderer! ... It is clear that this is a misunderstanding of a deserted soul, rough remnants of the still primitive existence of bestial, wild humanity ...
- Natalia Nordman, wife of I.E. Repin

This is terrible! Not the suffering and death of living beings, but how a person unnecessarily suppresses the highest spiritual principle in himself, the feeling of compassion and pity in relation to living beings like him - and, trampling on his own feelings, becomes cruel. But how strong is this commandment in the human heart - not to kill the living!
- Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The few animals were included in the Red Book, and there are many of them in the Book about tasty and healthy food.
- Faina Ranevskaya

It is our responsibility, as guardians of the planet, to treat all creatures with kindness, love and compassion. It is beyond comprehension that animals suffer from human cruelty. Help stop this madness
- Richard Gere is a staunch vegetarian

Those who have not learned to respectfully treat the life of any embodied creature will not be able to take the next step on the Path of cognition of Tao.
- LAO TZU

You need to pray sincerely - then you are much less attracted to boiled food and meat. And in general, less food is needed with prayer. If a person eats a lot, then this is a sign of slagging of the body and a small influx of higher energies.

"I feel sorry for the women who still buy real fur, they don't know what it means to be a woman - to have a heart and soul."
- Jane Meadows

I prefer to eat what has no eyes. The eyes are the soul, and what the soul is in can hardly be good for the body.
- Jean-Claude van Damme (vegetarian)

"If you love animals - do not eat them, and if you do, then do not say that you love"

If only once a person realizes the possibility of doing without animal food, this will mean not only a fundamental economic revolution, but also a noticeable progress in the morality and ethics of society.
- Maurice Maeterlink

"Buying beautiful shoes whose skin has been ripped from another creature when others are available modern materials, you do not think that you are a civilized person. You are absolutely uncivilized and primitive, and most importantly, you have no soul. "
- Stanislav Zaborovsky, animal rights activist.

"Auschwitz begins where someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks they are just animals." - Theodor Adorno, philosopher, sociologist, musicologist

To understand whether an animal has a soul, you need to have a soul yourself.
- Lev Tolstoy

The killing and eating of animals occurs, most importantly, because people were assured that animals are intended by God for the use of people and that there is nothing wrong with killing animals. But this is not true. In whatever books it is written that it is not a sin to kill animals, in the hearts of all of us it is written more clearly than in books, that an animal must be pitied as well as a person, and we all know this if we do not stifle our conscience.
- Lev Tolstoy

When we kill animals for food, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for humans.
- William Roberts, M.D.

"If a group of beings from another planet landed on Earth - beings who think they are superior to you, the way you feel about animals - would you allow them to treat yourself the same way you treat other animals?"

Why demand a report from me, why am I eating like a decent person? If I ate the burnt corpses of innocent beings, you would have reason to ask me why I am doing this.
- George Bernard Shaw, writer

"And it is strange why modern society itself is indignant at murderers, when itself continuously, without thinking about it, feeds on the corpses of animals, more or less modified by culinary art, so to speak, arranges a" cemetery "in its stomach."
- O.K. Zelenkova "Vegetarian".

"The city will cease to be healthy if its inhabitants begin to eat meat, and life will cease to be simple and fair."
- Plato

"I've seen people who are in many ways less intelligent than intelligent chimpanzees - and that's what I blame as a psychologist." - Professor Richard D. Ryder

"It is absolutely impossible to gain health, happiness, longevity and, most importantly, the joy of life, destroying and exploiting all other beautiful clean creatures for devouring and other dirty human deeds: clothing, medicine, hunting, circuses, zoos"
- Stanislav Zaborovsky, animal rights activist

“I heard the screams of my father, dying of cancer, and I realized that I was familiar with these screams. while the whaling harpoon that pierced her head explodes in her brain. Their screams are the screams of my father. I realized that when we suffer, we are all equal. The cries of suffering are the same in all kinds of animals and in all languages. "
- Philip Vollen, Vice President of the Bank, vegan.

"I don't see the difference at all between killing an animal and killing a man."
- Alisa Selezneva. "A Hundred Years Ahead". Kir Bulychev

“If you stop eating apples, no one will notice, if you stop eating cakes, no one will notice, if you stop eating sour cream and yogurt, no one will notice. . "
- O. G. Torsunov

Flesh is not the optimal food for humans and has not historically been part of the diet of our ancestors. Meat is a secondary, derivative product, because initially all food is supplied by the plant world. There is nothing useful or irreplaceable in meat and animal products for human body, which could not be found in plant foods.
- John Harvey Kellogg

"Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that it is safe to say that one who is cruel to animals cannot be kind."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

How can we hope that peace and prosperity will reign on earth if our bodies are living graves in which killed animals are buried?
- Lev Tolstoy.

"If a person is serious and sincere in his search for morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is meat-eating ... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and true a person's striving for moral perfection is."
- Lev Tolstoy.

Don't make your stomachs animal graves.

"We, the heads Christian Church, we abstain from meat food, in order to keep our flesh in subjection ... meat-eating is contrary to nature and defiles us. "
- St. John Chrysostom

"Anyone who builds up his body by eating the flesh of other creatures dooms himself to suffering, no matter what body he is born in."
- Mahabharata

In my opinion, the life of a lamb is no less valuable than the life of a human being. I argue that the more helpless a creature is, the more eligible it is to receive protection against human cruelty.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I do not regard the flesh of slaughtered animals as essential food for us. On the contrary, I am convinced that it is unacceptable for humans to eat meat.
- Mahatma Gandhi

For the sake of a piece of meat, we deprive animals of the life to which they have the same right as we do.
- Plutarch's Treatise On Eating Flesh

- Buddhist wisdom

Meat carries a destructive algorithm - a program that means one thing to you - self-destruction. This is the corpse of a once living creature that possessed relatively high level awareness, which means that the being was aware that he was being killed when he was killed, and this last thought-form was sealed into his body as a program - that is what that means.
- Vadim Zeland "Apocryphal transfer"

"The day will come when Man will not eat plants and animals, but He Himself, like plants, will use the energy of sunlight and synthesize vitamins and minerals necessary for building His body."
- Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky is an amazing Man, he spoke 15 languages, a thinker and natural scientist, he believed that Man would change in the future.

"... a person can feed on energy from the air," prana ", assimilating nitrogen from the environment through nitrogen-fixing microorganisms using cold nuclear fusion ..."
- Galina Sergeevna Shatalova, neurosurgeon who lived to be 94 years old

Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that it is safe to say that one who is cruel to animals cannot be kind.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes, after talking with a person, you want to friendly shake the dog's paw, smile at the monkey, bow to the elephant.
- Maksim Gorky

“The sad irony is that we often gaze into space, wondering if there are still intelligent beings, while we are surrounded by thousands of species of intelligent beings, whose abilities we have not yet learned to discover, appreciate and respect ... "
- Dr. Will Tuttle

"Vegetarianism acts as a purification. When you eat animals, you are more under the rule of the law of necessity. You become heavy, you are more attracted to the earth. If you are a vegetarian, you are light, you are more under the law of grace, the law of power, and the sky begins to draw you in." ...
- OSHO

“The world is not a thing, and animals are not raw materials for our needs. More than mercy, our duty towards animals is justice.
- Arthur Schopeng

It's a shame to wear fur today. This is how primitive people dressed, but they had no choice.
- Artemy Troitsky

Stylish people today don't wear animal fur. Beauty is incompatible with cruelty.
- Laima Vaikule

A fur coat is a cemetery. A true woman will not carry around a cemetery.
- Brigitte Bardot

No - cruelty in my heart, no - fur in my wardrobe!
- Fur is worn by beautiful animals or ugly people
- Respect the right to life, give up fur!
Fur is hell for animals and the environment.
Traps are a hell of a pain for your fur coat.

Is it cool to dress up as corpses?

Buying fur is a contract kill!

Here are dogs, they are like medicine: they heal, save people, strengthen nervous system... After eighty, everyone should have a dog. She will save you, help you with your daily routine better than any doctors.
- Georgy Vitsin

Georgy Vitsin did yoga, was a vegetarian. He lived modestly, but he fed street cats, dogs and pigeons. When he was asked: "Do you have a dream?" He replied: "- For people to feed the animals."
And when he was buried, all the stray dogs and birds that he fed, together with the crowd of people, went out to see him off on his last journey.

If you pick up a hungry dog ​​and make his life full, he will never bite you. This is the fundamental difference between a dog and a human.
- Mark Twain

We are part of a generation of shame; when future generations look back at how we have treated animals, they will be horrified.
- Jill Robinson, Founder, Animals of Asia Foundation

Killing an animal to make a fur coat out of it is a sin. A woman acquires status when she REFUSES to carry a killed animal on her shoulders. And only then is she truly beautiful.
- Doris Day

Just as it is now considered disgusting and shameful to throw up children, arrange gladiator fights, torture captives and commit other atrocities that never seemed to anyone before neither reprehensible nor disgusting to the sense of justice, so the time is coming when it will be considered immoral and impermissible to kill animals and eat their corpses ...
- Dr. Zimmermann

God help me to be the person my dog ​​thinks I am.
- Janusz Wisniewski

The degradation of humanity began with the loss of knowledge about the subtle body. As a result, people ceased to understand the subtle effect of food on consciousness ... A person, together with meat, constantly absorbs the power of an animal's suffering, therefore meat kills happiness.
- Doctor Torsunov.

"... if meat-eating was an indifferent matter, meat-eaters would not attack vegetarianism; they are irritated because they acknowledge their sin, but cannot yet free themselves from it."
- L. N. Tolstoy

"For animals, man is God. As we ask for help from God, so they ask for help from man."
- Paisiy Svyatorets

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. Everything else is a waste of energy and time.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is almost no time for the transition to vegetarianism, since the beginning of 2013 a new era begins. The governing energies are changing. It's just that meat-eaters can run into heart attacks, strokes, etc. It is their choice, but they should know about it ...
- Igor Globa

Vegetarian food is a great art, it will completely replace medications... Each food product is a medicine if it is used in accordance with the knowledge of the mechanism of action on the body, properly prepared and taken in the required quantity. You should study and use spices in food in the right proportions that will lead you to a quick recovery.
- Oleg Gennadievich Torsunov

Look for your DISEASE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PLATE
- Chinese folk wisdom

You are what you eat
- Hippocrates

With callousness, a bad attitude towards people, cruelty, excessive attachment to things, there is a craving for meat. These products are defiled, the power of death increases in a person from their use.
- Oleg Torsunov

Shame on you to put the product of agriculture on the same level with the torn to pieces of the slaughterhouse.
- Plutarch

Nothing will bring such benefits to human health and increase the chances of preserving life on Earth like the spread of vegetarianism.
- Albert Einstein

I believe that a vegetarian diet, if only due to its purely physical effect on the human temperament, should be the highest degree have a beneficial effect on the fate of humanity.
- Albert Einstein

"To understand whether animals have a soul, one must have a soul oneself."

“There are feelings in the animal kingdom too, and they are much deeper than in humans, because they come from the heart, and not because of profit.

If the soul is the ability to love, be devoted and grateful, then animals have it to a greater extent than many people.
- James Herriot

"The world is not a thing, and animals are not raw materials for our needs. More than mercy, our duty towards animals is justice."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"By killing animals for food, a person suppresses in himself the highest spiritual feelings - compassion and pity for other living beings like him - and, stepping over himself, hardens his heart."
- Lev Tolstoy.

In Norway, a meat-free day has been introduced, although for the time being for military personnel. This is very correct. Meat is a very harmful product. Norway is a rich country, they understand perfectly well that people need to accustom people to vegetarian food more.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

"How can we hope that peace and prosperity will reign on earth if our bodies are living graves in which killed animals are buried?"
- Lev Tolstoy

Why argue about vegetarianism? It needs to be practiced. While eating meat, it cannot be comprehended.
- Alexander Khakimov

"If the soul is the ability to love, to be faithful, to feel grateful, then animals are more likely to go to heaven than many, many people."
- J. Harriott

"Everything that is alive is sacred." William Blake

The time will come when humanity will be humane to every creature that breathes.
- Jeremy Bentham, 1781

In the same way as in Ancient Greece, also among the ancient Romans there were great philosophers-vegetarians (Horace, Ovid, Plutarch). Plutarch (45-12O AD) writes in his treatise "On Meat Eating &": "Can you really ask for what motives. Pythagoras refrained from eating meat? For my part, I ask the question under what circumstances and in what spiritual state, a person for the first time decided to taste the taste of blood, reach out with his lips to the flesh of a corpse and decorate his table with dead, decaying bodies, and how he allowed himself to call food pieces of that which had just mooed and bleated, moved and lived ... we steal from them the sun, light and life to which they have the birthright. "

Pythagoras (c. 5OO BC), who also knew about the law of reincarnation, said: "He who cuts a cow's throat with a knife and remains deaf to the mooing of horror, who can cold-bloodedly beat a bleating kid and dine on a bird that he himself gave food - how far is such a person from crime? "

Compassion for animals is so closely associated with kindness of character that it is safe to say that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a kind person.
- A. Schopenhauer

A state that treats animals badly will always be poor and criminal.
- Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

I love animals for their natural purity and sincerity. They don't judge you, they don't reason, they just want to be your friends, or at least they don't hide their intentions.
- Michael Jackson

"Dare to become wise! Stop killing animals! The one who postpones justice for later is nondifferent from the peasant who hopes that the river will be shallow before he crosses it."
- Horace (65-8 BC, Roman classic poet)

Plutarch throws down an open challenge to meat-eaters: "if you now have the desire to assert that such food was given to you by nature, then kill yourself what you want to eat, and do it with what you have by nature, but not with a butcher's knife, club or with an ax. "

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian scientist-genius): "Man is truly the king of beasts, for he surpasses them in cruelty. We live by the death of others. We are walking cemeteries!"

Even in my youth, I renounced meat-eating, and the time will come when people, like me, will look at the killer of animals as they do now at the killer of man.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Jean Paul (1763-1825, German poet): "O just Lord! Out of how many hours of hellish torment of animals a man milked out a single minute of pleasure for the tongue!"

Cruelty towards animals cannot exist where people are truly educated, nor where true scholarship reigns. This cruelty is one of the most characteristic sins of a base and ignoble people.
- Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859, founder of scientific geography)

"You have just dined; and how carefully, at a respectful distance of several or many kilometers, an abattoir would not be hidden, - you are an accomplice."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American writer and politician)

"I am a vegetarian and anti-alcohol, so I can find best use to my mind. "
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, invented, among others, the incandescent lamp, gramophone and microphone)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher): "All ancient philosophy was focused on the simplicity of life and taught some unpretentiousness. In this sense, few vegetarian philosophers have done humanity a greater service than all the new philosophers, and as long as these philosophers will not muster up the courage and go in search of a completely different way of life, and will not show it by their own example, they will remain an empty place. "

"If a person is serious and sincere in his search for morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is eating meat ... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and true a person's striving for moral perfection is."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian writer)

True human culture is possible only if not only cannibalism, but any enjoyment of meat is considered cannibalism.
- Wilhelm Busch (1832-19O8, German writer and graphic artist)

Emile Zola (1840-1902, French writer): "The question of animals is more important to me than concern about whether I will be ridiculed."

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends!
- J. Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, English-Irish playwright)

Sven Hedin (1865-1952, Swedish explorer of Asia): "I could never dare to extinguish the fire of life, I cannot reignite it."

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, Alsatian theologian and missionary physician, Nobel laureate 1952): "My opinion is: we must stand up for animals, completely abandon meat-eating and speak against it."

Franz Kafka (1883-1924, Austro-Czech writer): "Now I can contemplate you in peace; I no longer eat you." (when looking at fish in an aquarium)

I think that spiritual progress will require us at a certain point to stop killing the living beings around us to satisfy the whims of our body.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian politician and representative of the Nonviolent Resistance Movement)

The greatness and moral progress of a nation can be measured by how animals are treated in that nation.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Thanks to a purely physical effect on human temperament, a vegetarian way of life would be able to dramatically influence the fate of humanity.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-American physicist, 1921 Nobel laureate)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (19O4, American writer, 1978 Nobel laureate in literature): "We are all God's creations - and our prayers for God's mercy and justice are incompatible with the fact that we continue to eat the meat of animals that are slaughtered at our whim." ...

“I would go away to live a vegetarian life, even if the whole world began to eat meat. This is my protest against the state of the world. Nuclear energy, want and hunger, cruelty - we must make efforts against this. Vegetarianism is my step. And very important, I think. "

"Cruelty towards animals, as well as indifference to their suffering, is, in my opinion, one of the worst sins of the human race. This is the source of human corruption. If a person creates so much suffering, then what right does he have to complain when he suffers himself?
- Romain Roland (1866-1944, French writer; 1915 Nobel Prize laureate in literature).

In the book "Paedagogus" (II, 1) by Clemens of Alexandria (15O-215) it is said that the Apostle Matthew "lived on vegetable food and did not touch meat."

The Greek chronicler Eusebius (264-339), Bishop of Caesarea, points out in his History of the Church (II 2,3) that the Apostle and Evangelist John was a strict ascetic and vegetarian. And the Apostle Peter testifies in the Clementine homilies (XII, 6): "I eat bread and olive, and very rarely add vegetables."

How meat-eating entered the Bible Up to the 4th century A.D. traces of early Christian communities in Palestine, Byzantium, Greece and Alexandria (Egypt) indicated that alcohol consumption and meat-eating were not allowed. They received knowledge of Christ's teachings from many of the scriptures available at that time.

All the suffering that man inflicts on animals will return again to man.
- Pythagoras

As long as people slaughter animals, they will kill each other. And, indeed, the one who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
- Pythagoras

"As long as there are slaughter, there will be wars."
- Lev Tolstoy

Animals have a soul. I saw it in their eyes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Not because a person is higher than other creatures, that heartlessly torments them, but because he is compassionate to all living things.
- Buddha Shakyamuni

I don't trust people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when she doesn't like a person ...

The soul is in everything and in everyone. Take a good look, and you will find a fairy tale everywhere. Everyone is needed and important.
- Charles De Lint

He who, for the sake of his own happiness, kills or tortures other beings, just like he strives for happiness, does not acquire happiness after death.
- Dhammapada

Cats are different. A cat does not change its attitude towards a person, even if it is in its interests. A cat cannot be a hypocrite ... If a cat loves you, you know it. If you don't, you know too.
- Stephen King

"The one who kills animals and gives them unjustified suffering, as people do in slaughterhouses, will be killed in the next and in many other lives in the same way. Such crimes are never forgiven. If a person kills many thousands of animals professionally," so that other people can buy meat for food, he must know that in the next life, life after life, he will be killed in the same way. "

When an animal does something, we call it instinct; when a person does the same, we call it intelligence.
- Will Cappi

Animal instinct is more perfect than our mind.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

In order to love the Creator, one must first learn to love His Creation!

How often in conversations we remember our younger brothers. Viktor Mikhailovich's chickens do not peck money, dad keeps Katya in tight-knit gloves, and accountant Tatyana Akakievna is just a snake! We became interested in what these catch phrases mean. We were inspired by the material of the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" and made our own selection!

Read the article and arm yourself with knowledge. Now, if mom wants to rip out her little sister "like a Sidor's goat", you can popularly explain to her who this Sidor is. We are sure that mom will immediately soften.

Freeze the worm

The worm "appeared" on our plates thanks to the French expression tuer le ver. It literally translates to "kill the worm", but the French use it when they want to drink alcohol on an empty stomach.

Ate a dog

Nowadays, those who "ate" a man's friend are considered professionals in their field. The expression comes from the Korean tradition of eating dogs. The Russian people believed that the meat of these animals is tasteless, and it is extremely difficult to eat it whole, if not impossible. Anyone who is capable of such a task was considered a master of his craft. Hence the meaning of the phraseological unit.

On the bird's rights

So we are talking about those who have an unstable situation at work or not everything is in order with registration. Bird nests it's so easy to destroy or ruin - apparently, it was they who inspired those who came up with this expression.

Scapegoat

The custom of blaming all failures on another was invented by the ancient Jews. The Bible describes a ceremony in which the priest lays hands on the unfortunate animal, and all human sins are transferred to the goat. After the ceremony, the horned martyr was driven out into the wilderness.

Secular lion

The expression appeared in London almost two hundred years ago. Men who had success with women were jokingly compared to the lions who lived in the Tower: predators were very popular with Londoners.

The horse did not roll

In the old days, they knew very well that any horse, before allowing itself to be harnessed, must lie in the grass. This behavior of the horses delayed the process of starting work in the field or laying the wagon. Now this expression means that work has not even begun yet.

Chickens do not peck money

The expression came from the habit of a bird: chickens do not peck grain when there is a lot of it and they are already full.

Nose mosquito will not erode

Now this expression means accurate work in any field, but earlier it was used only among carpenters and jewelers. High-class craftsmen took pride in their polished products and assured that they did not even have a tiny roughness that a mosquito could sniff.

Newspaper duck

Now this is what they call a false sensational rumor. In the Middle Ages in Europe, travelers told tales of countries where everything was in abundance. Shake a tree ... and fat ducks fall from the branches like overripe fruits.

Another version: in Germany, journalists used the abbreviation NT ("non testantur" - not verified) under the news, in the reliability of which they were not sure. NT reads "ente" in German, which means ... You guessed it - "duck"!

Add a pig

The expression means to give somebody a big trouble. The catchphrase came from Muslims, for whom eating pork is prohibited by religion. When a Muslim accidentally ate the meat of a pig, they said "put a pig."

Disservice

This is what we call an inept service that does more harm than good. The expression came from IA Krylov's fable "The Hermit and the Bear." One day a hermit monk went to bed, and the bear decided to drive away the flies from him. One fly did not fly off the monk, then the bear took the stone and killed the insect on the forehead of the unfortunate man. "The blow was so dexterous that the skull sounded apart, And Mishin's friend stayed there for a long time!"

Bring to light

So they say when they want to convict someone of crimes or dishonest actions. The expression was introduced into everyday life by fishermen, who said "to take fish out to clean water", which means to lure the fish out of the reeds into clear water, where it is easier to catch it. From this turnover, the word "honestly" was formed - not hiding anything, frankly.

Ride a hare

If you have ever traveled without a ticket in an electric train, then you are well aware of this shaking feeling at the sight of a conductor entering the carriage. The first to compare the fear of being caught with the trembling of a rabbit were the French, who invented the expression aller en lapin - traveling by a rabbit.

Fuck like a sidorov goat

Who is this evil Sidor who tortures the unfortunate animal? In the old days in the villages Sidor was called an old grumpy grandfather, so angry that he does not regret his goat either.

Every cricket know your six

This expression means "keep your head down" and "do as you are told." Six is ​​a platform in front of the mouth of the Russian stove, on which crickets often sat. If the cricket came across in another place, the hostesses were very annoyed.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

The expression came from Aesop's fable. The stupid milkmaid carried a full bucket of milk on her head and dreamed of how she would buy chickens from the proceeds from the sale of milk and get rich selling eggs. She imagined so vividly how she would refuse her creditors that, imperceptibly for herself, she shook her head "no" and poured milk.

Hang all the dogs

This turnover has a truly eerie origin. The expression came from the guardsmen, close people of Ivan the Terrible. Not subject to the law, the oprichniks very soon began to terrify ordinary people... To give themselves an even more formidable look, they attached dog heads and brooms to the horses.

Animals are very nice friends: they don't ask questions or criticize.
George Eliot

Animals are nothing more than the prototypes of our virtues and vices that wander before our eyes, the ghosts of our souls.
V. Hugo

Minerals grow, plants grow and live, animals grow, live and feel.
Attributed to Karl Linnaeus

The crocodile is the most cruel animal after man.
Louis Boussinard

When an animal does something, we call it instinct; when a person does the same, we call it intelligence.
Will Cappi

The best thing about animals is that. that they don't speak much.
Thornton Wilder

Many people talk to animals, but few listen - that is the problem.
Benjamin Hoff

My favorite animal is a mule. A mule is much smarter than a horse. He knows when to stop eating and when to stop eating.
Harry Truman

My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz

Loving animals is dangerous: they live too shortly. It is even more dangerous to love people: they live too long.
Dictionary of Cynical Quotations

Beasts are not brothers or servants. These are other races, caught together with us in the net of earthly existence.
Henry Beston

Pigs are not subject to the temptations of imperialism. Tigers have no pride. Whales despise no one. The crocodile (no matter what they say about him) is alien to hypocrisy. If you take a closer look at them, you will be surprised: why do we attribute such bizarre qualities to them? The worst sins are human sins.
G.K. Chesterton

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or it should blush.

Man is the only animal that is able to keep friendly with victims until the last second. Until he eats them.
Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a riddle that needs to be solved.
Erich Fromm

Humans are the only animals that give birth for a specific purpose. True, there are also guppies - they love to feast on their fry.
P.J. O'Rourke

Feelings rather than reason distinguish man from animals. Observing a cat is more likely to see the work of the mind than laughing or crying. Maybe the cat is laughing and reasoning silently, to itself, but then it is possible that the crab is also solving quadratic equations.
Miguel de Unamuno

I believe that animals have senses and other signs of intelligence, but no one has yet been able to prove this. Why, we cannot prove that other people are reasonable, and what can we say about animals?
Professor Joseph Ledoux
Scientist neurologist, professor at New York University and member of the science rock band Amygdaloids.

Even if all the brilliant scientists, all the outstanding inventors and all the creative people of the world united, they would still not be able to come up with anything as amazing and funny as the lobster.
Charles Kingsley

Ants are so similar to humans that it's even embarrassing. They grow mushrooms, raise aphids like livestock, send troops to war, use chemical sprays to frighten and confuse the enemy, capture slaves, use labor, exchange information relentlessly. , they do everything that we do, only they don't watch TV.
Lewis Thomas

An amazing thing: every day I brush my teeth with salt, and at the same time in all the United Netherlands there are not as many souls as there are animals in my mouth.
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
He kept the technology of making lenses invented by him a secret and remained the father of microbiology for centuries. Through the Levenguk lenses, humanity first saw bacteria and sperm.

The fox knows a lot. The hedgehog is one thing, but the main thing.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

A snail is just a snot in a safety helmet.
Mick Miller

Speak suddenly in the swamp alligator - it would come out exactly like Tennessee Williams.
Rex reed

I guess there is no person in the world who would be hit by a rabbit. Anyway, hit on purpose,
Sir William Connor
Left-wing journalist who wrote Cassandra's column for the Daily Mirror from 1935 until 1967.

A gluttonous beast, pretending to be meek and timid, but if you touch it, it bites deeply and stings with poison to death. He has a fierce soul, harbors anger at everyone, and there is no such creature that he loves.
Edward Topsell
He wrote this about a shrew in the "History of four-legged creatures" (1607).

Did you know that squirrels are goddamn potholders?
miss piggy

A camel is a horse designed by a commission.
Alec Issigonis

Camel: An animal that can work for a week and not drink anything, unlike a person who can drink all week and not work.
Julian Tuwim (revised version)

We offer you a selection of statuses, aphorisms and quotes about animals. Philosophical statements will help you rethink your relationship to nature, and funny phrases about pets will cheer you up.

Animals are an integral part of nature. Some of them represent the world of wildlife, others feel like the masters of human homes.

How can you not love animals? After all, they amaze us with their devotion and ingenuity. Unlike humans, pets do not betray. They patiently listen to their masters and keep their secrets. Someone has a pet so as not to feel lonely, someone to discipline themselves, someone so that their children do not get bored. And someone, maybe, was just walking down the street, saw a fluffy lump and took it to him. Not many can decide on such an act. Most people still prefer to have purebred cats and dogs, royal pigs or fish. In fact, the breed of your pet is not important, if you sincerely love him - he will definitely reciprocate you.

Most often, cats, dogs, fish, parrots and turtles are brought up in city apartments. The most loyal of them are dogs, the most affectionate are cats. A pet is not only fun, but also care and responsibility. Animals discipline their owners. They often act as alarm clocks, while they are not very interested in the fact that you need to wake up at 7, not 5 in the morning!

The only drawback of the KITTEN is that sooner or later it turns into a CAT.

Children also have such a disadvantage)

How much more beautiful life would be if we were all the way our dogs see us.

If every person had a pet, society would be more responsible and kinder.

Anyone who says you can't buy happiness has never bought a puppy.

Or a kitten ...)

If the dogs spoke, people would lose their last friends.

We are friends with animals, because we do not hear from them the truth about ourselves ...

- Honey, let's get a kitten!
- No, you know I'm allergic to animal fur.
- Strange, is there an allergy to a cat, but not to a mink coat? ...

You don't need to feed the fur coat and you don't need to clean up after it either ...)

The only member of my family who has a personal fitness trainer is my dog!

Train and don't be jealous!)

It's good that my cat can't talk - she knows too much!

Pets are like a diary: they know everything, but they won't tell anyone)

The guinea pig is a unique animal. She has nothing to do with the sea or pigs.

People also have nothing to do with deer, but some walk with antlers ...)

Is it okay to throw out pets? If you have a cat, a dog, and no matter who, they become a member of the family! This is the same as throwing your child out into the street!

Having an animal at home is taking responsibility for its life.

A dog only hurts when it dies.

Leaving life pet is tantamount to the departure of any family member ...

Judging by the character of the cat, Ozverin and Tsarapun are added to the Whiskas food.

It would be better to add Antibloch there)

About man and animals

Only someone who had never been a beast himself could come up with signs prohibiting feeding them.

If people were allowed to feed the animals in the zoo, can you imagine what they would bring them? Chips, popcorn, cotton candy ...)))

- My wife loves animals.
- And my vegetarian.

Mine loves to look after them, not eat ...)

They say that a dog is a friend of man. Hopefully this huge, muzzled Rottweiler is running to see how I'm doing ...

In the meantime, you hope, look for a tree and climb it ...)

But do you know how nice it is to wake up not because the silence is pierced by the alarm clock, pumping up your nerves from the very morning, but because the cat purrs over the ear, sings its cat song ...

And the chorus of the song sounds like this: feed me, feed me ...)

Do you know why the oceans and seas are salty? The ocean is salty from the tears of sharks who just want to cuddle, but no one understands them !!

Say also that they are just flirting with people, and not attacking them ...)

The beast knows who he is and accepts it. A person may and knows who he is, but he questions everything. He is dreaming. He hopes. Changes. Is growing.

Animals always have specific goals. It would not hurt a man to learn from animals ...

In fact, at the zoo, children learn their first lesson in cruelty. Take a closer look at how ponies look there, especially those that ride children. Tortured, old, sick, poorly fed. Because no healthy horse or pony will allow a child to be put on it. And it is necessary to instill disgust in the circus from an early age. The circus teaches children to have fun by looking at the suffering of other living beings. I do not want my son to go to performances, the performances of which are built on humiliation and mockery of other creatures. When our children become adults, there will be a different world around, better and more humane, and old cruel amusements cannot be dragged into it. (A. Nevzorov)

And here it is the other way around: cruelty turns into a spectacle and brings pleasure to everyone.

Animals know much more than humans. Dogs can sense an earthquake beforehand. Birds fly halfway across the globe to find their nest. If people listened to animals more often, they wouldn't make so many mistakes. (Helen Brown)

People think they are smarter ... naive.

But the fact of the matter is that for centuries a person was lifted above animals and carried upward not by a stick, but by music: the irresistibility of unarmed truth, the attractiveness of its example. (Boris Pasternak)

If animals could play music, they would listen to it too.

Quotes and aphorisms

Lion is the king of the animals. Until the lioness woke up.

The male leads everything until the woman comes.

A house without a cat is not a house, but some kind of dog kennel!

And a house with a cat, a dog, a turtle and a parrot is like a zoo ...)

To understand whether animals have a soul, one must have a soul oneself. (Albert Schweitzer)

Animals feel and experience no less than people.

Animals are very nice friends: they don't ask questions or criticize. (George Eliot)

And instead of advice they ask for food)

He who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul. (Charlie Chaplin)

Feeding a homeless animal is to show everyone that you are capable of good.

Having got a dog, you will guard her, and she will walk you.

When walking a dog, a person first of all goes for a walk himself.

Chickens live in peace and harmony under one roof, and two roosters can never get along in one chicken coop - such is their nature.

And they also say that there is no female friendship ...)

The mouse is an animal whose path is littered with fainted women.

The mice are small, but the cry comes out big through them.

Without a cat there is no home, without a dog there is no yard.

There should be animals in the house, then it will be seen that good people live there.

God created a cat so that man has a tiger that can be stroked. (Victor Hugo)

And also, so that there is someone to wake up to work.

The cat is a furry alarm clock. (Alfred Whitehead)

Only it always works a couple of hours earlier)

The DOG is the only creature on this planet that loves you more than himself. (Josh Billings)

Dogs are the most loyal friends.

When a person has a pet, he takes responsibility for his life. It is very painful to watch stray animals that roam the streets in search of food. Remember that we are responsible for those we have tamed.

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

George Orwell

Don't believe that mice love cheese. They just eat it out of revenge for the cats around them.

Dogs have only one drawback - they trust people.

Elian J. Finbert

Man is an animal that has gone mad. There are two ways out of this madness: he needs to become an animal again; or to become more than a person ...

"Carl Gustav Jung"

Not to cause suffering to our lesser brothers is our first duty to them. But this alone is not enough. We have a higher mission - to serve them whenever they need it.

Francis of Assisi

I have always felt that animals are the purest souls in the world. They do not hide their feelings and do not pretend, they are the most faithful creatures on Earth. And for some reason we humans have decided that we are smart - what an irony.

Animals have horns, hooves, feathers and jaws! They are fighting in order to continue their kind!

Man is higher than animals, not because he can torment them, but because he is able to pity them. And man regrets animals because he feels that the same thing that lives in him lives in them.

Loving animals is dangerous: they live too shortly. It is even more dangerous to love people: they live too long.

My favorite animal is a mule. A mule is much smarter than a horse. He knows when to stop eating and when to stop working.

Harry Truman

Animals are very nice friends: they don't ask questions or criticize.

George Eliot

Only someone who had never been a beast himself could come up with signs prohibiting feeding them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The best thing about animals is that. that they don't speak much.

Thornton Wilder

Animals are such creatures that only man is worse.

"Georgy Alexandrov"

Animals are not people for you, you can negotiate with them.

When an animal does something, we call it instinct; when a person does the same, we call it intelligence.

Will Cappi

Rabbits do not die at all - they become earflaps, fur coats, muffs and continue to live in our souls.

Animals feed, people eat; but only smart people know how to eat.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An animal kills for food, a man for a soul.

"Arkady Davidovich"

Many people talk to animals, but few listen - that is the problem.

Benjamin Hoff

Pets are like a diary: they know everything, but they won't tell anyone.

Don't leave the animals ... please, they are the most loyal and love you no matter who you are or how much money you have.

"Elchin Safarli"

He who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.

"Charlie Chaplin"

Cruelty to animals is only the first experience for the same treatment of humans.

“J. Bernardin "

Cruelty towards animals cannot exist where people are truly educated, nor where true scholarship reigns.

"Alexander von Humboldt"

Animals are part of natural law, they have their rights because they are intelligent.

A lion remains a lion, even if he is as stupid as a donkey.

"Mikhail Genin"

I am always interested in: Why does some unicellular ameoba belong to animals - to living ones, and a plant that is more complex in structure, which can even feed on the same ameobas, bacteria, insects, birds, fish and sometimes even knows how to move, but - it is not considered an animal ?

"Vladimir Borisov"

It's good that my cat can't talk - she knows too much!

When an animal is beaten, its eyes take on a human expression. How much a person had to suffer before he became a person.

"Karel Chapek"

You say you love flowers - and you pick them up; you say you love animals - and eat their meat; you say that you love me - I am afraid of you ...

"Tonino Guerra"

Is it okay to throw out pets? If you have a cat, a dog, and no matter who, they become a member of the family! This is the same as throwing your child out into the street!

Feelings rather than reason distinguish man from animals. Observing a cat is more likely to see the work of the mind than laughing or crying. Maybe the cat is laughing and reasoning silently, to itself, but then it is possible that the crab is also solving quadratic equations.

"Miguel de Unamuno"

If God didn't want us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Sarah Palin

The lost sheep is constantly being made the scapegoat.

Yana Dzhangirova

Discrimination against living beings solely for the benefit of their species is a form of prejudice.

"Peter Singer"

Animals know much more than humans. Dogs can sense an earthquake beforehand. Birds fly halfway across the globe to find their nest. If people listened to animals more often, they wouldn't make so many mistakes.

Helen Brown

Animals are like children and old people: without the right to choose, they are not to blame for anything and are often of no use to anyone.

Yanna Serkova

If you are waiting for a living and thinking being to be deprived of life by others, and if you yourself are disgusted with ripping out the heart and shedding the blood of your victim, then why, I ask you, contrary to nature and pity, do you feed on beings endowed with conscious life.

I love pigs. The dogs look up at us. The cats look down at us. Pigs look at us as equals.

"Winston Churchill"

You can become a border guard if you rush after the dog for a long time.

"Shenderovich"

The guinea pig is a unique animal. She has nothing to do with the sea or pigs.

Humans are the only animals that have children for a specific purpose. True, there are also guppies - they love to feast on their fry.

"NS. J. O'Rourke

Cruelty to animals is one of the means of destroying moral sensitivity.

Benjamin Rush

Only a person who has a dog feels like a person.

But the fact of the matter is that for centuries a person was lifted above animals and carried upward not by a stick, but by music: the irresistibility of unarmed truth, the attractiveness of its example.

Boris Pasternak

A kitten in the animal kingdom is like a rosebud in a garden.

Robert Southey

The righteous man takes care of his cattle, but the heart of the sinner knows no mercy.

We never forget to drop by the wolves, so unhappy in their cages, where they constantly walk in circles - more in order to give them a brotherly glance than to admire them.

"Marina Vladi"

The time will come when humanity will be humane to every creature that breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

"Mikhail Genin"

No person who has ever lived side by side with animals living in the wild can then visit the zoo.

"Peter Heg"

Nature has endowed man with a high and beautiful gift of compassion that extends to dumb animals.