Animal Rights Quotes - Page 4

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  My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Perseverance, Animal, Compassion

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

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• 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.

  Muhammad

  Animal, Deeds Done, Vegetarian

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Eggs

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

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• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

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• When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Compassion, Animal

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• The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

  John Stuart Mill

  Children, Animal, Favour

  John Stuart Mill, Stephen Nathanson (1875). “Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.291, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Nature, Men

  "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  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

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• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

  Michael J. Fox

  Zoos, Animal, Needs

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• The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Men, Compassion

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Compassion, Race

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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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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Animal

  "Hippocrates".

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  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

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• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, World

  Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Mountain Lion"

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