Quotes about Animals

"Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul."
~~ Pythagoras (philosopher and mathematician, 570-495 BC)

"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they suffer?"
~~ Jeremy Bentham (English jurist, philosopher, 1748-1832)

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

"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
~~ Mark Twain

"By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe."
~~ A. Schweitzer

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
~~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian writer and essayist, 1821-1881)

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
~~ Mark Twain from "The Lowest Animal"

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
~~ Albert Schweitzer

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
~~ Abraham Lincoln

"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."
~~ Gary Larson

"A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast."
~~ Proverbs 12:10

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
~~ Jacques Deval (French playwright & director, 1895-1972)

"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."
~~ Hippocrates (Greek physician & philosopher 460-377 BC)

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
~~ George Bernard Shaw

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
~~ Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher, 1788-1860)

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
~~ Abraham Lincoln

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all livings things, Man will not himself find peace."
~~ Albert Schweitzer (German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician, 1875-1965)

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"I believe I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. To know that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it. THE PAIN WHICH IT INFLICTS UPON NON-CONSENTING ANIMALS is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
~~ Mark Twain

"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 Edison

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

"In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me."
~~ Mark Twain

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