Animal Quote by Leo Tolstoy

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly…

— Jane Goodall

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

— Chrissie Hynde

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I…

— Brigid Brophy

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

— Peter Singer

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

— Alphonse de Lamartine

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is…

— Robert Baden-Powell

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

— Brigid Brophy

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

— George Orwell

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

— Doris Day