Kindness To Animals Quotes

• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

  Henry Bergh

  Mean, Animal, Pet

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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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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• I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

  James Herriot

  Children, Animal, People

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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, Animal

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

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• Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Animal, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  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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• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

  James Herriot

  Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

  Anna Sewell

  Animal, Dumb, Pet

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.141, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  Albert Einstein

  Compassion, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Respect, Children, Abuse

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

  Alice Walker

  Animal, Pet, Ignored

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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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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• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.

  James Herriot

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

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• I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Animal, Compassion

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• Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

  Cesar Chavez

  Animal, Cruelty, Live Well

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  Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

  Paul Harvey

  Animal, Equality, Government

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• Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Animal, Years

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jan 18, 2015

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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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• 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, Animal

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