Animal Quotes - Page 16

• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Fun, Political, Politics

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• But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wall

  Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.365, Pan Macmillan

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• True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

  Joseph Addison

  Compassion, Philanthropy, Welfare

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”

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• When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

  Paris Hilton

  Family, Dad, Fishing

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• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Fear, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.30, Publishdrive

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• Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

  Adam Smith

  Funny, Dog, Men

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• Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

  Robert Southey

  Cat, Garden, Pet

  "The Doctor, &c".

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• A canter is the cure for all evil.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Evil, Pet, Cures

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• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Vegetarianism, World, Vivisection

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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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, Favour, Slave

  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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• In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

  Asa Gray

  Vegetables, Lines, Loops

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Men

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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• The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

  Henry Mayhew

  Vegetables, Quality, Essentials

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

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• Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

  Nick Clooney

  Hate, World, Matter

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• Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Treatment, Torture, Humane

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.69, Columbia University Press

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• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Art, Hunting

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• Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Pain, Vegan

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• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Gun, Men, Vegetarianism

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• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Vegetarianism, Evil

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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• As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Compassion, Vegetarianism, Blood

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

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• Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

  Joe Gores

  Dog, Mean, Owning A Pet

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• A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Inspiration, Heart

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• Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open our hearts to that most impractical of hopes in which all creation speaks as one.

  Matthew Scully

  Heart, Humility, Mind

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.442, Macmillan

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• There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Pride, Land, Sick

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.158, Oxford University Press, USA

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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, Vegetarianism

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