100+ Human Animal Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, Needs, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Compassion, Human Will, Inspirational Animal

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

- Mark Twain

topic: Recovery, Intelligent, Men, Kindness To Animals, Intellectual Superiority

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

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

We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

- Henry Beston

source: Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Taken, Fate, Men, Incompleteness, Living Creatures

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

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

- James Stewart

topic: Hunting, Animal, Rights, Animal Cruelty, Living Creatures

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Oxen, Vegetables, Raw Materials, Vegan Food, Vegetarian Food

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.

- William Ralph Inge

source: Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

topic: Cousin, Animal, Humanity, Animal Testing, Wildlife Animals

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

- Martin Buber

topic: Eye, Animal, Pet, Wildlife Animals, Cat Dog

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

- Muhammad

topic: Animal, Done, Deeds, Animal Cruelty, Compassion Towards Animals

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Animal, Savages, Stills, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Food, Animal, Meat Consumption, Meat Eating, Killing Animals

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Labrador Dogs, Stray Dogs

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

- James Cromwell

topic: Responsibility, Pet, Care, Animal World, Human Animal

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Fighting, Compassion, Animal, Kindness To Animals, Animal Testing

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.

- Richard Gere

topic: Kindness, Responsibility, Animal, Kindness To Animals, Love And Responsibility

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Compassion, Long, Doe, Sinai, Killing Animals

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

- Ali MacGraw

topic: Animal, Compassion, Race, Abused Animals, Animal Abuse

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: "Enemies, A Love Story". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 257, 1972.

topic: Dog, Cat, Men, Isaac, Might Is Right

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Dog, Animal, Pet, Inspirational Dog, Dogs And Life

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

- Peter Singer

topic: Animal, Brain, Important, Animal Testing, Experiments On Animals

The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

- Michael Klaper

source: "Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much–and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter". Book by David Robinson Simon, September 2013.

topic: Dog, Horse, Health, Inspirational Animal, Human Animal

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

- Thomas Chalmers

topic: Hurt, Pain, Animal, Extreme Pain, Animal Suffering

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

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Food Choices, Veganism

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.