Animal World Quotes - Page 2

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Sports, Men, Compassion

1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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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 his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

Albert Einstein

Nature, Compassion, Animal

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

John Henry Newman

Moving, Heart, Animal

"Parochial and Plain Sermons".

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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."

David C. Coates

Laughter, Men, Animal

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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Gautama Buddha

Men, Compassion, Animal

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But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.

Gautama Buddha

Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, Eating Meat

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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Animal, Blessing

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Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

James Cromwell

Responsibility, Pet, Care

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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Albert Schweitzer

Life, Cat, Animal

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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Albert Schweitzer

Fate, Animal, Vegetarianism

Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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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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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Mark Twain

Honesty, Lying, Animal

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So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. 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.

David C. Coates

Laughter, Animal, Men

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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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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Alexander von Humboldt

Animal, People, Vices

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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

Dalai Lama

Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Life, Fun

The Lorax (1971)

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer

Life, Death, Animal

Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

George Bernard Shaw

Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, World

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

H. G. Wells

Animal, Boys, Pigs

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.176, H. G. Wells

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Pain, Passion, Animal

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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

Animal, Deeds Done, Vegetarian

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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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