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
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
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. – William S. Gilbert
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. – Murray Banks
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
All creatures are deserving of a life free from fear and pain. – Maura Cummings
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit’s eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson’s eyes and ask him if it hurts. – Ellen DeGeneres
Only if we understand… can we care. Only if we care…we will help. Only if we help… shall they be saved. – Jane Goodall
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. – Paul McCartney
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
We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us. – Anthony Douglas Williams
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. – Albert Schweitzer
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?
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. – Charles Darwin
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
Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. – Milan Kundera
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
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
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
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
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.
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. – Jacques Deval
Murderers … very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids. – Robert K. Ressler
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
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.
The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham
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
Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals. – Ricky Gervais
The true measure of a society is not in its wealth or power, but in how it treats the most vulnerable, including animals.
Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. – Robert Brault
We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner?’ – K.D. Lang
Wear your own skin.
Animal abuse is not just a legal issue, it’s a moral issue that goes against the fundamental principles of compassion and empathy.
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
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. – Bradley Millar
The victims of animal abuse are not just animals, but also the society that allows such cruelty to go unpunished.
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 cruelty of animal abuse is not just in the act, but in the callousness and disregard for life that it represents.
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
…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
The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it.
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
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
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