Catholic Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

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

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been…

— Georg Brandes

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

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

— Mercy Otis Warren

“In adopting a patently false but stubbornly clung-to mythology of human sexuality that makes demons out of natural drives, we've entered a stage of…

— Jesse Bering

“You will have guessed what has really happened here, beneath all this: that will to self-tormenting, that repressed cruelty of the animal-man made inward…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

— Anna Quindlen

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

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sensitivity to personal guilt is a fundamental trait of our humanness that distinguishes us from animals. To try to suppress the conscience is…

— John Macarthur

“Our society should not buy into the abusive man's claim that holding him accountable is an act of cruelty.”

— Lundy Bancroft