Animals should not require our permission to live on earth. Animals were given the right to be here long before we arrived.
– Anthony Douglas Williams
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
– Murray Banks
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
– Thomas A. Edison
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
– Ellen DeGeneres
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
– Mahatma Gandhi
When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.
– Anthony Douglas Williams
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
– William S. Gilbert
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
– Paul McCartney
All creatures are deserving of a life free from fear and pain.
– Maura Cummings
Animals are not just a means to an end, but individuals with their own feelings, thoughts, and needs.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
– Albert Schweitzer
We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.
– Anthony Douglas Williams
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
– Marv Levy
Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
– Milan Kundera
I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
– Ali McGraw
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
– Charles Darwin
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
– Prophet Mohammed
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
The victims of animal abuse are not just animals, but also the society that allows such cruelty to go unpunished.
Dear intelligent people of the world, don’t get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now stop torturing animals.
– Ricky Gervais
If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
– George Bernard Shaw
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
– Albert Einstein
Animal are not just things, they are living beings that deserve love, respect and protection.
The cruelty of animal abuse is not just in the act, but in the callousness and disregard for life that it represents.
The true measure of a society is not in its wealth or power, but in how it treats the most vulnerable, including animals.
If you don’t like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures. You should be bothered that its happening, not that you saw it.
– Marie Sarantakis
I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.
– Henry Spira
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
– Robert Brault
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
– Anna Sewell
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
– George Orwell
Concern for animals is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Murderers … very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.
– Robert K. Ressler
The fight against animal abuse is not just about protecting animals, it’s about protecting our own humanity and the values that make us civilized.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
– Alice Walker
Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.
– James Anthony Froude
Animal abuse is not just a legal issue, it’s a moral issue that goes against the fundamental principles of compassion and empathy.
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
– Jacques Deval
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
– Henry David Thoreau
We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner?’
– K.D. Lang
Animal abuse is not just an individual problem, but a societal problem that requires collective action to end.
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
– Dalai Lama
No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.
– Thomas Schmidt
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.
– Paul Harvey
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
– Immanuel Kant
Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them.
– Maneka Gandhi
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
– Christine Stevens
Animal abuse is not just a crime against animals, it is a crime against humanity.
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
– Bradley Millar
Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals.
– Ricky Gervais
The animals of this world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites.
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
– George Bernard Shaw
I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.
– John Feldmann
Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
– Dr. David Starr Jordan
The tragedy of animal abuse is not just in the suffering it causes, but in the lost potential of the animals and the lost humanity of the abuser.
The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?”
– Jeremy Bentham
We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty.
– Julia Allen Field
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
– George Bernard Shaw
Every animal knows more than you do.
– Native American Proverb
One day I chanced to see the slaughter of a chicken, which made me decide to be a vegetarian.
– Dalai Lama
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
– Mahatma Gandhi
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
– Geraldine Brooks
If I had my way…there wouldn’t be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They’re never happy. They never settle down. You can see it in their eyes.
We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them – exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.
– Cesar Chavez
The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it.
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
– Pierre Troubetzkoy
Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anti cruelty laws.
– U.S. News & World Report
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are His children, one family here.
– Robert Browning
How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.
– Henry J. Heimlich
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.
– Paul Rodriguez
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
– Albert Schweitzer
Are you a carnivore? Keep a newborn lamb as a pet in your home for one year, then try to slaughter and eat it.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it’s the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.
– Maneka Gandhi
Elephants are big, powerful but fragile. We are dealing with a fragile eco-system. Look at the money involved in poaching. Man must give way to the elephant. We are not gong to allow anyone to come in the path of the elephant.
– Sharad A. Bobde
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
– Pythagoras
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals.
– Henry David Thoreau
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
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
– A. W. Tozer
Wear your own skin.
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
– Charles R. Magel
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
– Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.
– Michael Stepaniak
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.
– Cesar Chavez
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
– P.G. Wodehouse
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret…. It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
– Albert Schweitzer
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
– Graydon Carter
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.
– Cesar Chavez
…almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.
– Victoria Finlay
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals “love” them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
– Edwin Way Teale
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.
– Alice Walker
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
– Albert Einstein
If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.
– Howard Lyman
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
– Bion
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
– Sri Aurobindo
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Only elephants should own ivory.
– Yao Ming
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
– Mark Twain
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
– Jean Paul Richter
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
– Peter Singer
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
– Richard Pryor
Compassion, social intelligence, decisiveness, patience, wisdom. These are all qualities found in elephants and not found in the people allowing them to be killed for trophies.
– Ellen Degeneres
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
– C.S. Lewis
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
– William Ralph Inge
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
– Henrik Ibsen
I know in my soul that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy…You’re just eating misery.
– Alice Walker
Dear people with no soul, stop shooting elephants.
– Russell Crowe
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
– P.J. O’Rourke
Humankind’s greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.
– Jonathon Porritt
Elephants are NOT commodities, or products.
The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.
– Maneka Gandhi
If modern civilized man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
– Christian Morgenstern
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
How can anyone abandon a beautifully loyal dog? It’s not an accessory. It’s your best friend.
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
– Rue McClanahan
Very concerned to hear about the poacher who was killed by an elephant, then eaten by lions. Hope they didn’t get indigestion.
– Piers Morgan
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 creatures that cannot.
– Mark Twain
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
– Cesar Chavez
I’d like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won’t perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.