Man and Animal quotations B.C. 551 - 2004.
Compiled by Frederick Bratton.
Because he has pity in all living creatures, therefore is a man called holy.
Dhamapada - Buddhism.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Luke,ch.12,v.6.
Men who have practiced torture on animals without pity, relating them without shame. How can they still hold their head high among human beings?
Dr. Samuel Johnson.
In life, the dog the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Byron.
Compassion, universally regarded as the highest of virtues, is completely denied to laboratory animals, who cannot escape the horrors inflicted upon them. In their agony, they cannot protest.
NAVS Pamphlet No. 26
Pain and suffering are the hall mark of vivisection, and inseparable from this method of research.
Neville Bassous.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate", The Conduct of Life, 1860.
Animals have rights in themselves because of their capacity to feel both pain and pleasure.
St. Ciaran of Ossary.
In Buddhism we are told that animals, possessed of the Budda nature, are in time destined for Heaven.
Christmas Humpryes
Let none count themselves wise who have not in imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
John Cowper Powys.
A horse misused upon the road Calls to Heaven for human blood.
William Blake.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante.
Though death can steal the body, the spirit stays with you...
Pat Graham
As long as the world is controlled by mankind, good will not prevail.
Carolee.
The grateness of a nation and their moral progress can be judged by the way their animals are treated.
Gandhi.
The love of an animal is in their eyes.
Phineas Fletcher.
Extreme horror of cruelty is the mark of the spiritual man.
G.B.Shaw.
Oxford is still beautiful, in spite of the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisector.
Oscar Wild after a visit to Oxford.
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.
J.A.Froyde.
I'd like to know on what basis of morality, and who gives us the moral right, to take the life of any living thing.
Spike Milligan.
Being a good person is not a pre-requesite for enlightenment, but a consequence of it.
John Ratcliffe.
If there is a future life for man, a believer in evolution must claim a future life for the animal kingdom. However lowly.
Rev.W.H.Cock. Director, Religious Education, Diocese of York.
Kill more, and fill our museums, Science leagues itself with death, and the museums roaring for rare specimens, one against another cry, `KILL`
Edmund Selus.
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Shakespeare.
The animal world is a manifestation of God's power, and demands respect and consideration. The desire to kill animals, unnecessary harshness and callous cruelty towards them, must always be condemned.
Pope Pius the Twelfth.
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
Pythagoras, B,C.551.
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
Albert Einstein.
The love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world, as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian.
Syndee Brinkman
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport. When the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
Hippocrates
I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.
Jayne Meadows
A nation's progress can be judged by how they treat their animals.
Gandhi
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison