Quotes on Human Beings And Animals

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

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

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

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.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

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.

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

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

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