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
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
Dear intelligent people of the world, don’t get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now stop torturing animals. – Ricky Gervais
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
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. – Bradley Millar
I think animal testing is a terrible idea. They get all nervous and give silly answers. – Stephen Fry
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. – Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. – George Bernard Shaw
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. – Robert Brault
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen
Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. – George Bernard Shaw
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored. – Alice Walker
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. – Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
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
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
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