Quotes on Animal Welfare

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

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.

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

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

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.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.