Quotes
Quotes about Animals
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.
Animals will take love without demanding it; they have teeth, but they will not bite with the vindictiveness of human adults
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they life about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Poor animals! How zealously they guard their pathetic bodies.. that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?" -Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
What is called discretion in men is called cunning in animals.
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
I'm 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 T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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.
