Quotes on Compassion Towards Animals

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

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.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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.

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.

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

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.