Animals Quote by Jonathan Swift

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that…

— John Henry Newman

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt;…

— Thomas Chalmers

Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are…

— Joseph P. Bradley

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

— Isaac Newton

The brute is an imperfect animal compared to man who is a perfect beast.

— Vikrant Parsai

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the…

— Joseph Addison

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living…

— Pythagoras

“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

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its…

— William James

Hungry animals and man only attacks when it is empty then

— Mak_786

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and,…

— William James