Quotes on Pet Animals

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

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

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.

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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

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.

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.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

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

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 don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

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

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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.

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.

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.