The Animals Quotes
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.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
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.
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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.
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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.
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?
Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.
I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
