Adults Quote by Terri Irwin

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 can become violence to humans.

— Ali MacGraw

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so…

— Anonymous

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of…

— Desmond Morris

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr

“As with some examples we have shown earlier, these very vocal advocates seem to overlook the “genocide” of native animals perpetrated by introduced predators…

— Peter P. Marra

The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered…

— Gary Yourofsky

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

— Peter Baynham

“And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon…

— H.G. Wells