A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

A dog wags its tail with its heart.

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

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.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast.

A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew his breath over it and created the horse.

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

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

"As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

As long as there are slaugterhouses, there will be battlefields.

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: Because the animals are like us. Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: Because the animals are not like us.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

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.

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always make it look like the dog did it.

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.

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out of the window.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Every animal knows more than you do.

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.

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.

Here, Gentleman, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

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

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take better care of the world.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they where they went.

If you don’t have a dog - at least one - there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there maybe something wrong with your life.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men that who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

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 a man.

If you think that being so small cannot make any difference, then you have not been to a bed with a mosquito.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Killing an animal to make a coat is a sin. It wasn't meant to be and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful!

Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same defective fabric:

"Lisa: ""Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?"" Homer: ""Well, I think the veal died of loneliness."""

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places, their life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as them. Now smile if you believe all animals deserve our respect and our protection, for in a way, they are us, and we are them.

Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though. That's the problem.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their happiness, do not work against God's intent.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently because time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than canabalism, yet we make the same impression on vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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

Old age means realizing you will never have all the dogs you wanted to.

Our task is to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Results from animal tests are not transferable between species, and therefore cannot guarantee product safety for humans…In reality these tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but rather they are used to protect corporations from legal liability.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Six million people died in concentration camps, but 6 billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.

So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

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.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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

The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

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

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

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but they are people like unto you.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

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.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. Both those that respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

Thou shalt not kill.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Today more than ever before life must be characterised by a sense of universal responsibility not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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

Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, we ourselves will not find peace.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

We can not do great things - only small things with great love.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

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

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only he is noble.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Who kicks a dog kicks his own soul towards hell.