--- title: "16 Suffering Animals Quotes by 15 authors" description: "Browse 16 Suffering Animals quotes by 15 authors. Discover the best Suffering Animals sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/alison-eastwood-33647_animal_it-s-easy-to-just-see-what-you-want-to-s_253249.jpg" --- > [It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-eastwood/it-s-easy-to-just-see-what-you-want-to-see-in-your-own-comfort-bubble/) [Alison Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-eastwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/alison-eastwood-33647_animal_it-s-easy-to-just-see-what-you-want-to-s_253249.jpg) > [Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/ich-glaube-sogar-durch-leidensk-a-mpfe-k-o-nnten-dietiere-zu-menschen/) [Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/heinrich-heine-1170_animal_ich-glaube-sogar-durch-leidensk-a-mpfe-k_783644.jpg) > [I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-pryor/i-urge-you-to-ask-yourself-just-how-honorable-it-is-to-preside-over/) [Richard Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-pryor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/richard-pryor-5290_abuse_i-urge-you-to-ask-yourself-just-how-hono_1893996.png) > [Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-newkirk/anybody-who-witnesses-the-suffering-of-animals-and-has-a-glimmer-of/) [Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-newkirk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c2/ingrid-newkirk-3962_animal_anybody-who-witnesses-the-suffering-of-a_2915923.png) > [By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-gannon/by-working-to-alleviate-the-suffering-of-animals-you-are-working-at/) [Sharon Gannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-gannon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/sharon-gannon-2432_alleviate_by-working-to-alleviate-the-suffering-of_1709612.png) > [Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-dowding-1st-baron-dowding/even-should-it-be-conclusively-proved-that-human-beings-benefit/) [Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-dowding-1st-baron-dowding/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/hugh-dowding-1st-baron-dowding_animal_even-should-it-be-conclusively-proved-th_1463964.png) > [The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-indifference-callousness-and-contempt-that-so-many-people-exhibit-2/) [Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a9/albert-einstein-33_animal_the-indifference-callousness-and-contemp_1484853.jpg) > [Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ella-wheeler-wilcox/many-times-i-am-asked-why-the-suffering-of-animals-should-call-forth/) [Ella Wheeler Wilcox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ella-wheeler-wilcox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/ella-wheeler-wilcox-1442_animal_many-times-i-am-asked-why-the-suffering_2131132.jpg) > [For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/for-at-the-same-time-many-people-seem-eager-to-extend-the-circle-of/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/michael-pollan-408_animal_for-at-the-same-time-many-people-seem-ea_2783631.png) > [ If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think \[the end\] justifies the means...… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-newkirk/if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result-in-suffering-to-animals-or/) [Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-newkirk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png) > [Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all. Animal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-goode/animal-rights-can-be-as-extreme-as-not-riding-a-horse-or-not-wearing/) [Eric Goode](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-goode/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/eric-goode-17390_animal_animal-rights-can-be-as-extreme-as-not-r_209704.jpg) > [To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-must-be-used-sympathetically/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/wendell-berry-236_abet_to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-mus_1818747.jpg) > [The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-g-white/the-intelligence-displayed-by-many-dumb-animals-approaches-so-closely/) [Ellen G. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-g-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fa/ellen-g-white-1229_affection_the-intelligence-displayed-by-many-dumb_2971804.jpg) > [The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashley-montagu/the-indifference-callousness-and-contempt-that-so-many-people-exhibit/) [Ashley Montagu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashley-montagu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/ashley-montagu-9564_all-things_the-indifference-callousness-and-contemp_1385744.jpg) > [“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/though-reason-must-guide-us-in-laying-down-standards-and-laws/) [Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/325/matthew-scully-12509_animal_though-reason-must-guide-us-in-laying-do_2983392.jpg) > [“And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts. More and more people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-goodall/and-if-we-dare-to-look-into-those-eyes-then-we-shall-feel-their/) [Jane Goodall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-goodall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd2/jane-goodall-950_around-the-world_and-if-we-dare-to-look-into-those-eyes-t_1648871.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/suffering-animals/#itemlist", "name": "Suffering Animals Quotes", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. 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My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ella-wheeler-wilcox/many-times-i-am-asked-why-the-suffering-of-animals-should-call-forth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/ella-wheeler-wilcox-1442_animal_many-times-i-am-asked-why-the-suffering_2131132.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/ella-wheeler-wilcox-1442_animal_many-times-i-am-asked-why-the-suffering_2131132.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/ella-wheeler-wilcox-1442_animal_many-times-i-am-asked-why-the-suffering_2131132.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the…” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Pollan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/for-at-the-same-time-many-people-seem-eager-to-extend-the-circle-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/michael-pollan-408_animal_for-at-the-same-time-many-people-seem-ea_2783631.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/michael-pollan-408_animal_for-at-the-same-time-many-people-seem-ea_2783631.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/michael-pollan-408_animal_for-at-the-same-time-many-people-seem-ea_2783631.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in…” — Michael Pollan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ingrid Newkirk" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-newkirk/if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result-in-suffering-to-animals-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end]…” — Ingrid Newkirk", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all. Animal welfare advocates are preventing the suffering of animals. And then there's conservation and species conservation and what conservation biologists do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eric Goode" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-goode/animal-rights-can-be-as-extreme-as-not-riding-a-horse-or-not-wearing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/eric-goode-17390_animal_animal-rights-can-be-as-extreme-as-not-r_209704.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/eric-goode-17390_animal_animal-rights-can-be-as-extreme-as-not-r_209704.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/eric-goode-17390_animal_animal-rights-can-be-as-extreme-as-not-r_209704.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all…” — Eric Goode", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The \"animal scientist\" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wendell Berry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-must-be-used-sympathetically/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/wendell-berry-236_abet_to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-mus_1818747.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/wendell-berry-236_abet_to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-mus_1818747.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/wendell-berry-236_abet_to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-mus_1818747.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known…” — Wendell Berry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ellen G. 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