Animal Quote by Thomas More

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit;…

— Erasmus Darwin

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

— Olaf Stapledon

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect…

— Rachel Carson

“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

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

— Annie Lennox

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.

— Gautama Buddha

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

— Dalai Lama

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

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

— Romain Rolland

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and…

— Dean Koontz