Inspiring Quotes For People Who Love Animals

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson


What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. ~ Chief Seattle




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No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~ Murray Banks
Anthony Douglas Williams
Inside The Divine Power



Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~Paul Harvey
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~ Rue McClanahan
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~ Paul Rodriguez
Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws. ~
U.S. News & World Report, 1999 December 6th
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ~ C.S. Lewis
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ~ Author Unknown
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
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Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. ~ William S. Gilbert
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? ~ Jean Paul Richter
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God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear -To give sign, we and they are His children, one family here. ~ Robert Browning
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Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ~ Thomas De Quincey
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Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress. ~ Louis Sabin
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~ Pierre Troubetzkoy

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~ George Orwell, Animal Farm
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ~Joseph Wood Krutch
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 James Herriot

A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion 

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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.
~ James Anthony Froude,Oceana, 1886
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“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”~ Alfred A. Montapert
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“When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.”~ Marc Bekoff
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Life is life — whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”~ Lilian Jackson Braun
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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”~ LindaMcCartney
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“Man is the cruelest animal.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”~ Milan Kundera
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“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.”~ Leo Tolstoy
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“As an animal lover, I don’t like zoos. I feel the only creatures that should be caged behind bars are politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And rapists, but I’ve already listed that three times.”
~ Jarod Kintz

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
~ Mark Twain
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“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”~ George Carlin
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
~ Winston Churchill

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“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”~ Mark Twain
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“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”~ Josh Billings
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”~ George Orwell, Animal Farm
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“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”~ Paul McCartney
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“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”~ Charles M. Schulz
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“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
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A picture is worth a thousand words.

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”~ Mark Twain
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”~ Colette
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“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.”
~ Leo Tolstoy

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“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”~ Alfred A. Montapert
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~ Anatole France

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“May all that have life be delivered from suffering”~ Gautama Buddha
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“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”~ Betty White, If You Ask Me
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“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”~ Lilian Jackson Braun,
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
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“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,
A Little Princess

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“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
~ Johnny Depp
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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.~ Samuel Butler
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. ~ Alice Walker
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