My 20 Favorite Quotes on Animal Rights

• “Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”—Pythagoras

• "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God." ---Luke 12:6 (NIV)

• “We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”—Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty

• “Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.”—Cesar Chavez

• “The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”—Hippocrates

• “Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.”— Denis de Rougement

• “If man is not to stifle human feelings, he must practice kindness to animals, for 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.” —Immanuel Kant

• “Unseen they suffer, unheard they cry, in agony they linger, in loneliness they die.”—Anonymous 

• “One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.”—Jane Goodall

• “It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”— Mark Twain

• “One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.”—Margaret Mead

• “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”—Thomas A. Edison

• “One who harms animals, directly or indirectly, has not understood deeds of sin…those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not desire to live at the expense of others.”—Jainism

• “I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't….The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”— Mark Twain

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• “Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.”—Paul Rodriguez

• “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”—George Bernard Shaw

• “The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?”—Jeremy Bentham

• “The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo….We need a boundless ethic which includes the animals also.”—Albert Schweitzer

• “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.”—Alice Walker

• "We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.”—Qwatsinas

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