Animal Quote by Ed Buckner

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man.…

— Romain Rolland

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus…

— Immanuel Kant

“Animal abuse should be taken seriously not just because of our concern for humans. Lax enforcement of animal-cruelty laws leads to untold suffering by…

— Clif Flynn

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own…

— Frederick The Great

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything…

— Thomas Paine

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

— Richard Pryor

“He who can deliberately inflict torture upon an animal, in order to heighten the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, is…

— William Cobbett

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

— Gary L. Francione

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for…

— John Rawls

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise…

— C. S. Lewis

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

— Ian Somerhalder

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question:…

— Ayn Rand