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Animal Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts…
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any…
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people…
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use…
- Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
- Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
- A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for…
- What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for…
- When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is…
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough