Animals Quote by Anna Sewell

“We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.”

— Anna Sewell

“O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain,—never suffer anything,—not even hear a…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Belinda Jeffrey

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.…

— Walt Whitman

“Animals, like people, did not ask to be who or what they were, and to make life difficult for others simply for being what…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“God speaks in the least of creatures.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Animals are better than humans. They aren’t complicated or evil. They do what they have to do to survive. And they have emotions just…

— E.L. Todd

“Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.”

— Francine Rivers

“Animals' pain and pleasure are akin to yours and mine, and their will to live is just as strong.”

— Anonymous

“I looked at all the caged animals. . . . . . . the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love…

— Jim Willis

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche