"A civilized society must count animals as worthy……" — Jeremy Bentham
"A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough