Fidel Castro Quotes

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.

I don’t give a crap for the pup fish.

People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

It was like the first time I'd ever seen Hollywood just really not do the right thing. We filmed Free Willy in Mexico. I'd come in a really nice car from my hotel, and we'd have to drive around all the crew that was sleeping in the parking lot. People making their breakfast on the ground. It was because there was a whale there that was in a little tank. It just felt gross. It felt really bad. They didn't free that whale for, damn... at least 10 years later. The poor whale had horrible psoriasis all over him, and his fin didn't work.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

We should all love animals.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

I hate zoos.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.