Animals Quotes
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life.
I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.
There is continuity between humans and other animals in their emotional lives; there are transitional stages among species, not large gaps; and the differences among many animals are differences in degree rather than in kind
That climate acts in main part indirectly by favouring other species, we clearly see in the prodigious number of plants which in our gardens can perfectly well endure our climate, but which never become naturalised, for they cannot compete with our native plants nor resist destruction by our native animals.
I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
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. And to act so is immoral.
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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