Animals Quotes
I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.
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.
The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.
A naked man on a naked horse is a fine spectacle. I had no idea how well the two animals suited each other.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
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.
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.
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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