Animal Quote by Albert Schweitzer

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they…

— Jeremy Bentham

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say,…

— Matthew Scully

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to…

— Steven Spielberg

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

— Rumi

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

— Chrissie Hynde

Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we…

— Nathaniel Altman

“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards,…

— Matthew Scully

“Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

— Philip Rieff

Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal…

— Frank Kameny

No animal has to suffer for me to live.

— Linda Blair

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

— Josh Billings