Max's Corner - Animal Quotes

Favorite Animal Quotes

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

-James Herriot (born James Alfred Wight)-
(Mar 10, 1916 - Feb 23, 1995)

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

-George Bernard Shaw-
English playwright (1856-1950)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated...I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

-Mahatma Gandhi-
Hindu spiritual leader (1869-1948)

"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

-George Eliot-
English novelist (1819-1880)

"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"

-James Anthony Froude-
English historian (1818-1894)

"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."

-Will Cuppy-

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."

-Peter Singer-

"It's inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

-Henrik Ibsen-
Norwegian dramatist (1828-1906)

"Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed."

-Mark Twain-
American author/humorist (1835-1910)

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."

-Alfred A. Montapert-

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

-Paul McCartney-
Singer/songwriter (1942- )

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."

-Henry David Thoreau-
American essayist/poet (1817-1862)

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."

-Mark Twain-
American author/humorist (1835-1910)

"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie."

-Edith Head-
Amer. fashion designer (1898?-1981)

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

-Martin Buber-
Judaic scholar/philosopher (1878-1965)

"We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees."

-Qwatsinas-

"Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them."

-Denis de Rougement-
Author

"I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans."

-Sigmund Freud-
Austrian physician (1856-1939)

"God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection."

-St. Francis of Assisi-
Italian monk (1182?-1226)

"Animals are my friends - and I do not eat my friends."

-George Bernard Shaw-
English playwright (1856-1950)

"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."

-Hippocrates-
Greek physician (460?-377? B.C.)

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

-Anna Sewell-
English author (1820-1878)

"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

-Dr. Albert Schweitzer-
French philosopher/physician (1875-1965)

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

-Anatole France-
French author (1844-1924)

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."

-Samuel Butler-
English novelist (1835-1902)

"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives."

-Albert Schweitzer-
French philosopher/physician (1875-1965)

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

-Samuel Butler-
English novelist (1835-1902)

"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."

-St. Francis of Assisi-
Italian monk (1182?-1226)

"Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures."

-Thomas De Quincey-
English essayist (1785-1859)

"Of all the creatures ever made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."

-Mark Twain-
American author/humorist (1835-1910)

"I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans."

-Jimmy Stewart-
Actor (1908-1997)

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?"

-Jeremy Bentham-
English author/philosopher (1748-1832)

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

-Abraham Lincoln-
16th U.S. President (1809-1865)

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."

-Thomas A Edison-
American inventor (1847-1931)

"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-
Physicist (1879-1955)

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

-Anna Sewell-
English author (1820-1878)
Black Beauty 1877

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."

-Dalai Lama-
Tibetan spiritual leader (1934- )

"When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport. When the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity."

-George Bernard Shaw-
English playwright (1856-1950)

"Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind."

-Henry Bergh-
Founder of ASPCA (1811-1888)

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous, it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."

-Emile Zola-
(1840-1902)

"The animals of the planet are in deperate peril...without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."

-Alice Walker-
(Living by the Word, 1988)

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