I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my…

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk…

— Andrew Linzey

So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being…

— David C. Coates

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

— Albert Schweitzer

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all,…

— Dalai Lama

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the…

— Henry Beston

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Wake up you must, and step up you must, not should, but must, for only then, can an animal world be changed into a…

— Abhijit Naskar

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day.…

— Louie Schwartzberg

We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones…

— Russell Means

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other…

— Robert Southey

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ...…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must…

— Albert Schweitzer