Animal Rights Quotes

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

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

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

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• 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.

  Animal, Soul, One Day

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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• Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

  Pythagoras

  I Hate You, Animal, Soul

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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  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

  Fighting, Compassion, Animal

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  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

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, Compassion, Animal

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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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• As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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

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• 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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• 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

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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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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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• 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

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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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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• All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Animal

  "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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  My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Perseverance, Animal, Compassion

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

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• If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Land, Rights

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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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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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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