Quotes on Animal Compassion

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.