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  • cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

    Heart   Sleep   Animal  
  • True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

    Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”
  • Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

    "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.
  • Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

  • Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

    Pain   Animal   Men  
  • No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

    Animal   Pet   Needs  
  • When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

    Sports   Men   Compassion  
    1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.
  • Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

    Horse   Animal   Law  
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

    Sports   Animal   Hunting  
  • universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

    Gun   Men   Animal  
  • Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.

    Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.132, Penguin
  • Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

  • I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

    Time   Kindness   Animal  
    George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”
  • Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

    Peace   War   Heart  
    "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.
  • We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

    Cousin   Animal   Rights  
    Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)
  • I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

    Book   Animal   America  
    "Why Ellen Went Vegan". www.peta.org. November 09, 2009.
  • The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

  • A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)
  • If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

    Religious   Peace   Men  
  • Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  • Never wear anything that panics the cat.

    Fun   Cat   Animal  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

  • The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

    Hurt   Pain   Animal  
  • People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

    "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.
  • It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

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