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
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
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
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game. – Paul Rodriguez
The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it.
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
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
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – Albert Schweitzer
…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 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.
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
We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty. – Julia Allen Field
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
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
Only elephants should own ivory. – Yao Ming
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
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.
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
How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time. – Henry J. Heimlich
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
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