Quotes

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as now they look upon the murder of men.

Look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places, their life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as them. Now smile if you believe all animals deserve our respect and our protection, for in a way, they are us, and we are them.

My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only he is noble.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their happiness, do not work against God's intent.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they where they went.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. Both those that respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

Old age means realizing you will never have all the dogs you wanted to.

"Lisa: ""Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?"" Homer: ""Well, I think the veal died of loneliness."""

Killing an animal to make a coat is a sin. It wasn't meant to be and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful!

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take better care of the world.

There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but they are people like unto you.

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than canabalism, yet we make the same impression on vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Who kicks a dog kicks his own soul towards hell.

Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same defective fabric:

And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew his breath over it and created the horse.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great lonliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

We can not do great things - only small things with great love.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though. That's the problem.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Results from animal tests are not transferable between species, and therefore cannot guarantee product safety for humans…In reality these tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but rather they are used to protect corporations from legal liability.

Thou shalt not kill.

Today more than ever before life must be characterised by a sense of universal responsibility not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

A dog wags its tail with its heart.

We could all kill ourselves trying to conserve what’s left of this planet but if new generations aren’t raised to be better stewards then there’s very little point.

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.

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 as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

If you don’t have a dog - at least one - there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there maybe something wrong with your life.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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.

Here, Gentleman, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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.

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.

A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men that who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always make it look like the dog did it.

"As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Our task is to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Six million people died in concentration camps, but 6 billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.

Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, we ourselves will not find peace.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

As long as there are slaugterhouses, there will be battlefields.

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.

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.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of the whole human being.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Every animal knows more than you do.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

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.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently because time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

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.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

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 a man.

I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out of the window.