The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
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.
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.
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.
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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.
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.
I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
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