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  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

    George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社
  • If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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

    Sports   Men   Compassion  
    1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

    Character   Animal   Men  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive
  • Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

  • To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

    Karma   Animal   Rights  
    Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS
  • If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

    Religious   Peace   Men  
  • 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.

  • The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

    Wisdom   Peace   Kindness  
  • 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.

    Oceana ch. 5 (1886)
  • Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

    Animal   Men   Eggs  
    Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1
  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

    Dog   Nature   Greatness  
  • Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

  • Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  • 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.

    Running   Fear   Animal  
    George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

    Meaningful   Nature   Men  
    "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.
  • If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

    Zoos   Cat   Animal  
  • 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.

    Pain   Men   Compassion  
  • Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

    Life   Peace   Honesty  
    "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,
  • Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

    Love   Inspiring   Dog  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  • Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

    Love   Peace   Nature  
    "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
  • I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

    Thinking   Animal   Ideas  
  • 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.

  • It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

    Animal   Compassion   Pet  
  • Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

    Love   Loyalty   Grateful  
  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

    Men   Compassion   Animal  
  • God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

    Life   Funny Love   Men  
    "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.
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