Quotes on Treatment Of 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.

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.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

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

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.

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