John Henry Newman Quote by Andrew Linzey

“Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or…

— Russell Banks

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of…

— Marcel Proust

“Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by…

— Farley Mowat

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,”

— Brian Lee Durfee

“Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.”

— Robin Hobb

“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.”

— Gayendra Abeywardane

“My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel…

— Christine Wade

“I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.”

— Noah Gordon