Show kindness to animals also, as well as to all people. For as you treat all other created beings, so will you, in the long run, be treated.
Animals Quotes
It was human – quite distinctly human. It is not pleasant to hear you libel the higher animals by attributing to them dispositions which they are free from, and which are found nowhere but the human heart. None of the higher animals is tainted with the disease called the Moral Sense. Purify your language Seppi; […]
Do not buy an animal, even a bird, until you have the food you will need for it. Do not eat until you have fed your animals. If an animal must be killed for food, see that it is done with as little pain and shock as possible. Never, unnecessarily kill or hurt an animal.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water’s edge. Perhaps ten […]
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
In the old ten-acre pasture, Lookin’ eastward toward a tree, There’s a Purple Cow a-settin’ And I know she thinks of me. For the wind is in the gum-tree, And the hay is in the mow, And the cow-bells are a-callin’ “Come and see a Purple Cow!” But I am not going now, Not at […]
The rabbit has a charming face; Its private life is a disgrace: I really dare not name to you The awful things that rabbits do.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty […]
