Animal Quote by Milan Kundera

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

— Milan Kundera

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind…

— Milan Kundera

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy:…

— Milan Kundera

Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with…

— Milan Kundera

“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not…

— John Steinbeck

“Goodness - real goodness - has its own sort of cruelty to it.”

— Cassandra Clare

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans…

— Edward Abbey

“Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.”

— David Mitchell

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era…

— Jane Goodall

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more…

— Anonymous