Animals And Society Quotes:

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Dog, Nature, Greatness, Animal Cruelty, Plants And Animals

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: World, Vegetarian, Beast, Animal Ethics, Animal World

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

source: "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Positive, Philosophical, Compassion, Animal Cruelty, Kindness To Animals

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Kindness, Human Will, Inspirational Dog

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.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Religious, Peace, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

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

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

topic: Spiritual, Nature, True Friend, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

- George Orwell

topic: Running, Fear, Men, Animal Testing, Ploughing

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

- Alexander von Humboldt

topic: Ignorance, Animal, Luxury, Animal Cruelty, Animal Testing

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

- Albert Schweitzer

source: "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

topic: Strong, Philosophical, Animal, Inhumanity, Kindness To Animals

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.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Time, Men, Compassion, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

- Pythagoras

topic: I Hate You, Animal, Soul, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

- John Muir

topic: Nature, Animal, Pet, Inspirational Animal, Wildlife Animals

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Peace, Soulmate, Honesty, Inhumanity, Indifference And Apathy

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

- Rachel Carson

source: "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, World, Animal Cruelty, Cruel World

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

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Animal, Human Will, Animal Cruelty

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Distance, Vegetarianism, Vegan, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny Inspirational, Food, Health, Raw Food, Chances In Life

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 A. Edison

topic: Life, Peace, Honesty, Animal Cruelty, Non Violence

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Karma, Animal, Pet, Compassion Towards Animals, Animal Compassion

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

source: "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

topic: Dog, Pain, Boys, Hunger And Thirst, Animal Cruelty

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Animal, Research, Atrocities, Medical Research, Animal Cruelty

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Philosophical, Animal, Discovery, Animal Cruelty, Animal Testing

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

- Mark Twain

topic: Pain, Animal, Race, Human Will, Inflicting Pain

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

- Bernard Williams

topic: Happiness, Nature, Inspirational Life, Man And Dog, Spaniels