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  • 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
  • An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  • 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  
  • 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.
  • One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!

    Heart   Animal   Years  
  • 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'.
  • 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  
  • The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

    Life   Nature   Animal  
  • 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 vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

    Christiaan Barnard (1979). “The best medicine”
  • Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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
  • It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

  • 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.

  • The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  • Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • 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. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

    Memories   Men   Animal  
  • During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

  • If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  • Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

    Oceana ch. 5 (1886)
  • ...It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

  • Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

    Animal   Pet   Ignored  
    Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”
  • There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

    Animal   Names   Looks  
  • Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

    Animal   Men   Eggs  
    Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1
  • Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

  • I love to help women cut through all the labeling loopholes to find the best personal and oral care products on the market. This includes, of course, ingredients, but also recyclable packaging, products with expiration dates, examining company values (which includes no animal testing), and more.

  • Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

    Cancer   Animal   Giving  
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