Animal Quote by Thomas Chalmers

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

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have…

— Anonymous

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot…

— Anonymous

Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to…

— Peter Singer

“No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of the word; they have not deserved it…

— Mark Twain

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of…

— Mark Twain

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint,…

— Marc Bekoff

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that…

— John Henry Newman

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need…

— Charlotte Lamb

“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness?…

— Jeremy Bentham