Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Two

• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Differences, Brutality

• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Men

• ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Purpose, Flesh

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

• My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Fall, Men

  "Les Confidences: Confidential Disclosures" by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Eugène Plunkett, New York: D. Appleton & Co., (Book IV, Note VIII, p. 60), 1857.

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