Animals Quote by Alec Baldwin

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

— Terry Pratchett

“Families, nature’s very own torture device.”

— L.C. Hibbett

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

— William Penn

Being compassionate towards hapless creatures is the most humane deed one could do to the nature, regardless of the size, shape or looks of…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.”

— Nenia Campbell

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just…

— Guru Nanak

“Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind”

— Alexander Humboldt

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

— John of the Cross

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

— Charles Spurgeon

“As we passed this living cruelty, I shuddered in momentarily isolation and then let out an audible gasp at what I saw. They were…

— Alfred Nestor

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and,…

— William James