Animal Quote by Wayne Pacelle

“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

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

“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making…

— Gary L. Francione

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already…

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Anonymous

“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind…

— Ruth Harrison

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

You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They,…

— Charlotte Ross

“It is true, as we are often reminded, that kindness to animals is among the humbler duties of human charity--though for just that reason…

— Matthew Scully

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and…

— Julian Baggini

“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