Famous animal-rights quotations

   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.
 ~ by St. Francis of Assisi

   Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
 ~ by S. Parkes Cadman

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
 ~ by Mark Twain

   People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
 ~ by Joseph Wood Krutch

   Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.
 ~ by R. Lerner, letter, Sierra, March-April 1991

   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.
 ~ by Schopenhauer

   Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
 ~ by George Orwell, Animal Farm

   The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
 ~ by Henry David Thoreau

   When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
 ~ by Ingrid Newkirk

   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.
 ~ by Christian Barnard, surgeon

   If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
 ~ by As seen on a shirt

   Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws.
 ~ by U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999

   As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
 ~ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

   The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
 ~ by Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928

   Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.
 ~ by Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex, 1986

   Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
 ~ by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated

   The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
 ~ by Christine Stevens

   I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
 ~ by Mark Twain

   Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. 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.
 ~ by Mark Twain

   Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
 ~ by William S. Gilbert

   I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
 ~ by Mahatma Gandhi

   No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
 ~ by Murray Banks

   Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.
 ~ by Alice Walker

   Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
 ~ by Leo Rosten



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