Agony Quote by Rukmini Devi Arundale

If animals could speak, mankind would weep.

— Anthony Douglas

“Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak on their…

— Sylvia Dolson

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

— Jeremy Bentham

Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take…

— Denis de Rougemont

We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should,…

— Rebecca Hall

Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we…

— Nathaniel Altman

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

— Robert Breault

As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own…

— Michael Arden

We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us…

— Will Tuttle

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If…

— Joy Williams

“...we have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are,…

— Anna Sewell