Quotes on animals

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“People speak sometimes about the bestial cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

“People would rather believe than know.”

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”

“May all that have life be delivered from suffering”

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”

“..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

“We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”

“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”

“Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.”

“To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.”

“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.”

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so are our lives with them.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

If only they could talk, how we would suffer.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

You don’t love animals for what they are, you love them because they aren’t human.

I am more comfortable with farm animals than with people.

The best part of the job is the pleasure of seeing my patients get well.

It is a fact of life that animals don’t let go of life until they are ready.