Killing Animals Quotes

• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Peace, Heart

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  Pythagoras

  Health, Animal, Men

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Men, Compassion

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• Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

  Rachel Carson

  Peace, War, Heart

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Adventure

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Acceptance, Animal, Way

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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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• 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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• Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

  Jess C Scott

  Fashion, Animal, Vanity

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Skins (animal stories, rights)”, p.2, jessINK

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• One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using toxic chemicals such as pesticides/industrial wastes, will accelerate the extinction of plants/animals and the result will be a more hostile environment for man.

  Erik P. Eckholm

  Men, Animal, Toxic

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

  Doris Day

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Coats

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Causes, Farms

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

  Pino Caruso

  Strong, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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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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• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

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• Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.

  Robert Ressler

  Kids, Animal, Welfare

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• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Men, Compassion

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophical, Compassion, Animal

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• When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

  Marv Levy

  Morning, Fun, Father

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• Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Character, Thinking

  "'American Sniper' director Clint Eastwood says the movie is anti-war". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.businessinsider.com. Interview with Stephen Galloway.

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