Animal Quotes - Page 15

• Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Vegetarianism, Justice, Together

  "Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships". Book by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297, 1984.

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• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Nature, Heaven

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• It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.49, Penguin

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• There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

  Jeff Stilson

  Vacuums, Cleaners, One Thing

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• I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Rights, Hands

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

  H. G. Wells

  Vegetarianism, World, Meat

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1995, Delphi Classics

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• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  Plutarch

  Eye, Men, Vegetarianism

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Giving, Abuse

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• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Totems, Instinct, Mankind

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.107, D. H. Lawrence

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• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beautiful, Cousin, Humanity

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Life, Dog, Men

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Death, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Dog, Feet

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• Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Pet, Welfare, Beast

  1608 Sicinius. Coriolanus, act 2, sc.1, l.6.

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• Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Science, Discovery, Looks

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• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

  Carl Jung

  Vivisection, Medical, Unnecessary

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Broken, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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, Compassion, Diversity

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

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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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• One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

  Allen Wheelis

  Herds, Tendencies

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• Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Cat, Ideas

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