Animal Cruelty Quotes - Page 3

• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Animal, Kind

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• People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  Voltaire

  Pain, Philosophical, Character

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• Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Animal, Suffering, Benefits

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• The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Animal, Practice

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Discovery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

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• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Giving, Cameras

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• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fashion, Animal, Pet

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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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• Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  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

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• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• 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

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

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• I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Sleep, Animal

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• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Cat, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

  Murray Banks

  Animal, Pet, Needs

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• 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

  Strong, Philosophical, Animal

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

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• 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. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

  Albert Schweitzer

  Memories, Men, Animal

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• 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

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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• Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

  "Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships". Book by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297, 1984.

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• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Animal Rights

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• Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

  John Galsworthy

  Animal, Compassion, Suffering

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7260, Delphi Classics

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• I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

  Peter Kay

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Animal

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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