ANIMAL ABUSE QUOTES AND SAYINGS

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by how its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful, and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” – Alfred A. Montapert

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That’s the essence of inhumanity.” – George Bernard Shaw

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” – Immanuel Kant

“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.” – Sri Aurobindo

“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

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Animal abuse is a betrayal of our humanity.” – Unknown

“Animals are not property or commodities but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.” – Marc Bekoff

“The biggest criminals we have are not the ones living in our streets but the ones inside our ivory towers.” – Captain Paul Watson

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.” – Matthew Scully

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but rather, ‘Can they suffer?'” – Jeremy Bentham

“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

“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

“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.” – Axel Munthe

“The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.” – Henry Beston LET ME MAKE LOVE TO YOU QUOTES

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” – Henry Beston

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” – Martin Buber

“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.” – Alexander von Humboldt

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France

“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The emotional lives of animals may be richer, more varied, and more profoundly ‘human’ than many humans realize.” – Carl Safina

“People who abuse animals rarely stop there. Many of them graduate into violence against humans.” – Mary Lou Randour

“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.” – Margaret Mead

“The more helpless the victim, the greater the crime.” – Georgia S. Wraight

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character.” – Charles Darwin

“The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; namely, that Man is descended from some less highly organized form. The grounds on which this conclusion rests will never be shaken, for the close similarity between man and the lower animals in embryonic development, as well as in innumerable points of structure and constitution, both of high and of the most trifling importance – the rudiments which he retains, and the abnormal reversions to which he is occasionally liable – are facts which cannot be disputed. They have long been known but until recently they told us nothing with respect to the origin of man. Now when viewed by the light of our knowledge of the whole organic world their meaning is unmistakable. The great principle of evolution stands up clear and firm, when these groups of facts are considered in connection with others, such as the mutual affinities of species, their geographical distribution in past and present times, and their geological succession.” – Charles Darwin

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.” – Cesar Chavez