Animal Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

— Albert Einstein

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own…

— Frederick The Great

“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor, however great…

— Seneca

“If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard…

— Immanuel Kant

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

— Henry George

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

— Herman Melville

“It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals;…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by chance he…

— Eduardo Galeano