Ashley Montagu Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

  Ashley Montagu

  Animal, People, Evil

• Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

  Ashley Montagu

  Nature, Animal, Names

• Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

  Ashley Montagu

  Pain, Eye, Animal

• Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

  Ashley Montagu

  Animal, Order, Childhood

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