Animal Quote by Charles Darwin

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to…

— Charles Darwin

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason,…

— Charles Darwin

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle…

— Charles Darwin

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial…

— Charles Darwin

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

— Charles Darwin

“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what extent we…

— Brian Luke

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

— John Ruskin

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it turns an…

— Abhijit Naskar

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our…

— Azar Nafisi

And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it…

— John Stuart Mill

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe