Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In 2004, the Animals in War monument outside Hyde Park in London was created by the English sculptor David Backhouse. The monument… — Anthony J. Nocella II Copy Share Image
Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
