Cruelty Quote by Charles Lamb

My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans…

— John Gray

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is…

— Robert Baden-Powell

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe…

— Albert Einstein

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain…

— William Cronon

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There…

— Dalai Lama

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in…

— Abhijit Naskar

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long…

— Pythagoras

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I…

— Brigid Brophy