Animal Cruelty Quotes - Page 5

• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Rapper, Animal

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• As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Acceptance, Emotional, Animal

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Animal, Research, Disease

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• Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

  Bo Derek

  Horse, Animal, Law

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• Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.

  Bernard Brodie

  Men, Animal, Drug

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• Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Animal, Demonstration, Cruelty

  "Q&A With Actor and Activist Ian Somerhalder ( Lost, The Vampire Diaries ) on Social Change and Animal Rights". Quora Interveiw, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2013.

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Growing Up, Pain

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

  Nathan Runkle

  Motivation, Optimistic, Adversity

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Men, Principles

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Respect, Nature, Children

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  We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fighting, Compassion, Animal

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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• As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

  Richard Gere

  Kindness, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Love, Animal, Understanding

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Death, Sports, Humorous

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.

  Neil Gaiman

  War, Animal, People

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• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

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• In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Work, Animal

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• I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

  Leona Lewis

  Animal, Shoes, Clothes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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