Animals Quotes

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

Ellen G White

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 31:8-9

The great 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

All you need is love and a cat.

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

Luke 12:6

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Job 12:7

We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.

Ellen G White

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 12:10

In a country such as this, where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, how can one think that he must eat the flesh of dead animals?

Ellen G White

Animals are here with us, not for us.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Ghandi

The merciful provisions of the law extend even to the lower animals, which cannot express in words their want and suffering.

Ellen G White

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo Da Vinci

World peace begins in the kitchen.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

Psalm 8:6-8

A false view of dominion has played a role in the mistreatment of creation, but a correct understanding of the concept can lead to service, responsibility, and stewardship.

Justin Holcomb

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

Pino Caruso

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci

People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.

Michael Klaper

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Rachel Carson

Animals are my friends. And I don’t eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 11: 6-9

Animals are not ingredients.

Barbara Thompson

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

Francis of Assisi

One farmer says to me, ‘You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;’ and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Henry David Thoreau

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Plutarch

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Mark Twain

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

Psalm 36:6

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Genesis 1:30

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of real food for real people, you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.

Neal Barnard

The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

When you truly understand that your food choices are powerful and life-affirming, you can exercise control and restraint without deprivation.

Marlene Adlemann

There is no greater wrecking ball to the planet than the industries that turn animals into food. No single choice that we make has a bigger or more positive impact.

David Agranoff

People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

Pino Caruso

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!

Ellen G White

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong in the world.

Paul Farmer

And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

Hosea 2:18

Violence begins with the fork.

Mahatma Gandhi

You either approve of violence or you don’t, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.

Ellen G White

Could we understand the language of animals how instructive would be the dialogue of dogs.

Eudoxus

The perfections of animals afford perpetual scope for reflection and improvement. Every individual of the vast host of animated creation, whether bird, beast, fish, or insect, displays qualities fitted with unerring precision to its wants.

Mac Cormac

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

Joaquin Phoenix

Only when we have become non-violent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

It is a mistake to suppose that muscular strength depends on the use of animal food. The needs of the system can be better supplied, and more vigorous health can be enjoyed, without its use. The grains, with fruits, nuts, and vegetables, contain all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood. These elements are not so well or so fully supplied by a flesh diet. Had the use of flesh been essential to health and strength, animal food would have been included in the diet appointed man in the beginning.

Ellen G White

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?

Ellen G White

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine being a factory farmed animal.

Davegan Raza

He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

Psalm 147:9

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

Matthew Scully

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 65:25

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Ellen G White

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Jeremiah 12:4

Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God's original purpose in the creation of man.

Ellen G White

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.

Cecil Frances Alexander

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Psalms 145:9