Compassion Quote by Christopher Hitchens

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,…

— Georges Cuvier

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

“When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair, and the way that lion mauled him was decidedly unfair; but the hunter…

— Walt Mason

“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

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit;…

— Erasmus Darwin

“The history of cruelty inflicted in the name of morals has convinced me that the increase of identification might achieve what moralizing cannot: beautiful…

— Arne Næss

“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

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

“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

“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

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”

— T. Casey Brennan