If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
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.
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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.
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
Man is by nature a political animal.
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
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.
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.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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