Humans And Animals Quotes:

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.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Loyalty, Grateful, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Faithful Dogs

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

- Pythagoras

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

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

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

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

- James Herriot

topic: Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude, Animal Cruelty, Kindness To Animals

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

- Louis J. Camuti

topic: Animal, Understanding, May, Kindness To Animals, Animal Welfare

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

- James Cromwell

topic: Fun, Animal, Personality, Factory Farming, Vegetarian Health

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

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

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Love, Life, Nature, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

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

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

- Anatole France

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

- Jane Goodall

topic: God, Spiritual, Unique, Spiritual Evolution, Animal Welfare

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Dog, Philosophical, Cat, Human Will, Animal Cruelty

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Life, Motivational, Laughter, Humans And Animals

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

- Martin Buber

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

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Attitude, Animal, Humanity, Animal Cruelty, Animal Testing

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

- Haile Selassie

topic: Compassion, Animal, Pet, Inspirational Animal, Pet Animals

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

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Freedom, Kindness, Compassion, Living Creatures, Animal Testing

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Animal, Soul, One Day, Animal Welfare, Humans And Animals

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

- Marilyn Monroe

source: "Music for Chameleons (A Beautiful Child)". Book by Truman Capote, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Animal, Inspirational Dog, I Love My Dog

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

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

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

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

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.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Pain, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Killing 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

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

- Alice Walker

topic: Animal, World, Sanctuary, Wildlife Animals, Animal Love

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

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Love, Inspiring, Dog, Inspirational Animal, Wildlife Animals

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain

topic: Cat, Men, Pet, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.16, Hamilton Books

topic: Fear, War, Atheism, Good Human Being, Humans And Animals

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

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Animal, Compassion, People, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

- Betty White

source: Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.15, Penguin

topic: Lying, Animal, Pet, Moody, I Don't Lie

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Kings, Men, Compassion, Inspirational Animal, Burial

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

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

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

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Thinking, Animal, Self, Demented, Placid