Animal Welfare Quotes - Page 2

• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• 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

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• 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

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

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

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• Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

  Emile Zola

  Animal, Men, Welfare

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• I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Animal, Compassion

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• The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

  Dian Fossey

  Animal, Men, People

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

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• 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

  Meaningful, Nature, Men

  "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.

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• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Rapper, Animal

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Animal

  "Hippocrates".

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• Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Animal

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• 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

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

  Joseph Addison

  Animal, Compassion, Philanthropy

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”

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• 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

  Time, Men, Compassion

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

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

  Alice Walker

  Animal, Pet, Ignored

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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• 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

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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

  Martin Buber

  Dog, Eye, Animal

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.73, A&C Black

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• The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

  R. Edward Freeman

  Animal, Race, Faithful

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• A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Men, Looks

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Animal

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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