(1671 quotes found)
“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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, German philosopher”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms”
George Eliot
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?”
Tom Snyder
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston Churchill
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
Josh Billings
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost”
Voltaire
“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
Mark Twain
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it”
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