An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don’t get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us. - Whitney Mandel
Animals are like little children a bit. They’re simple. They don’t have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff
Animals are like people because people are animals. - Barbara T. Gates
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honourable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike. - Matthew Scully
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man. - Robert E. Howard
Animals are not humans with reduced capacities. They have their own capacities, their own spectrum of aptitudes and behaviours. - Jean Kazez
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support. - Marc Bekoff
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
Animals are, like all living things, self-building, self-maintaining, and self-protecting embodiments of their genetic designs, and they are therefore in human eyes objects of their own operations. - A.Van Ginkel
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making. - Jeffrey Moussaieff
Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them. - Ivan Klima
Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. - Charles Darwin
Ask experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. - Charles R. Magel
Even as we try to think objectively about what animals are like, we are burdened with the need to justify our moral relations with them. We kill animals for food; we use them as experimental subjects in laboratories; we exploit them as sources of raw materials such as leather and wool; we keep them as work animals--the list goes on and on. These practices are to our advantage, and we intend to continue them. Thus, when we think about what the animals are like, we are motivated to conceive of them in ways that are compatible with treating them in these ways. If animals are conceived as intelligent, sensitive beings, these ways of treating them might seem monstrous. So humans have reason to resist thinking of them as intelligent or sensitive. - David Inglis, John Bone & Rhoda Wilkie
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. - Mark Twain
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
I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human. - Rachel Ray
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolsoy
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
Our
intuitions on animals are incoherent; the same people who condemn
branding of cattle may dock the ears and tails of their dogs. The law
is of no help--in the eyes of the law animals are property, either
private property or community property. The Animal Welfare Act,
reflecting irrational social prejudice, does not consider rats, mice,
or domestic farm animals to be animals; for the purposes of the act,
a dead dog used in research is an animal, a live mouse is not. And
traditional moral philosophy is of no help either, since for most of
its history it was virtually mute on the subject of our obligations
to other creatures. More has been written on this subject, in fact,
in the past ten years than in the previous three thousand. - Richard
Sherlock & John D. Morrey
Society grants animals rights not because animals are like us or because animals would demand them, but because we humans feel empathy with animals. We attribute to them that they can suffer and that they deserve as living creatures not to suffer. - Armin Krishnan
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. - John Grogan
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. - Alice Walker
The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. Courage and timidity are extremely variable qualities in the individuals of the same species, as is plainly seen in our dogs. Some dogs and horses are ill-tempered, and easily turn sulky; others are good-tempered; and these qualities are certainly inherited. Everyone knows how liable animals are to furious rage, and how plainly they show it. - Charles Darwin
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another.... I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end. - Cleveland Amory
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawaken. - Anatole France
We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity. - Andrew Linzey
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. - Barbara Kingsolver
When animals are no longer colonized and appropriated by us, we can reach out to our evolutionary cousins. Perhaps then the ancient hope for a deeper emotional connection across the species barrier, for closeness and participation in a realm of feelings now beyond our imagination, will be realized. - Jeffrey Moussaieef Masson & Susan McCarthy
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
Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don’t get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us. - Whitney Mandel
Animals are like little children a bit. They’re simple. They don’t have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff
Animals are like people because people are animals. - Barbara T. Gates
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honourable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike. - Matthew Scully
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man. - Robert E. Howard
Animals are not humans with reduced capacities. They have their own capacities, their own spectrum of aptitudes and behaviours. - Jean Kazez
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support. - Marc Bekoff
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
Animals are, like all living things, self-building, self-maintaining, and self-protecting embodiments of their genetic designs, and they are therefore in human eyes objects of their own operations. - A.Van Ginkel
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making. - Jeffrey Moussaieff
Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them. - Ivan Klima
Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. - Charles Darwin
Ask experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. - Charles R. Magel
Even as we try to think objectively about what animals are like, we are burdened with the need to justify our moral relations with them. We kill animals for food; we use them as experimental subjects in laboratories; we exploit them as sources of raw materials such as leather and wool; we keep them as work animals--the list goes on and on. These practices are to our advantage, and we intend to continue them. Thus, when we think about what the animals are like, we are motivated to conceive of them in ways that are compatible with treating them in these ways. If animals are conceived as intelligent, sensitive beings, these ways of treating them might seem monstrous. So humans have reason to resist thinking of them as intelligent or sensitive. - David Inglis, John Bone & Rhoda Wilkie
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. - Mark Twain
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
I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human. - Rachel Ray
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolsoy
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
It
is also a very remarkable fact that although many animals show more
skill than we do in some of their actions, yet the same animals show
none at all in many others; so what they do better does not prove
that they have any intelligence, for if it did then they would have
more intelligence than any of us and would excel us in everything. It
proves rather that they have no intelligence at all, and that it is
nature which acts in them according to the disposition of their
organs. In the same way a clock, consisting only of wheels and
springs, can count the hours and measure time more accurately than we
can with all our wisdom. - Rene Descartes
Society grants animals rights not because animals are like us or because animals would demand them, but because we humans feel empathy with animals. We attribute to them that they can suffer and that they deserve as living creatures not to suffer. - Armin Krishnan
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. - John Grogan
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. - Alice Walker
The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. Courage and timidity are extremely variable qualities in the individuals of the same species, as is plainly seen in our dogs. Some dogs and horses are ill-tempered, and easily turn sulky; others are good-tempered; and these qualities are certainly inherited. Everyone knows how liable animals are to furious rage, and how plainly they show it. - Charles Darwin
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another.... I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end. - Cleveland Amory
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawaken. - Anatole France
We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity. - Andrew Linzey
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. - Barbara Kingsolver
When animals are no longer colonized and appropriated by us, we can reach out to our evolutionary cousins. Perhaps then the ancient hope for a deeper emotional connection across the species barrier, for closeness and participation in a realm of feelings now beyond our imagination, will be realized. - Jeffrey Moussaieef Masson & Susan McCarthy
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
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