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Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
Oct 1, 2025
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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.
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
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.
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and 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.
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.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.