Animals Quote by Ruth Harrison

If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals…

— Ruth Harrison

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign…

— Anonymous

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark…

— William Jones

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus…

— Immanuel Kant

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

— Ian Somerhalder

“..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.”

— Ali Smith

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are…

— Wayne Pacelle

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing…

— Victoria Moran

“Often the greatest challenge of the animal welfare movement is to remind people of the things they already know to be true-that to mistreat…

— Wayne Pacelle

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We…

— Matthew Scully