Quotes
There is no better way to connect with an issue than to read the thoughts, ideas and observations made by others. Whether they are well known personalities, philosophers or people expressing an emotional reaction to an event or situation. Thought provoking statements and profound wisdom can come from the most unlikely sources and be an incredible source of both inspiration and motivation!
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” … Gandhi
“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” … Dostoevsky
“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
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” ... Woodrow Wilson
“I don’t believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.” … Gary Larson
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be – the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourselves.” … Farley Mowatt
When all the dangerous cliffs are fenced off, all the trees that might fall on people are cut down, all of the insects that bite have been poisoned – and all of the grizzlies are dead because they are occasionally dangerous, the wilderness will not be made safe. Rather, the safety will have destroyed the wilderness.” … R. Yorke Edwards – Canadian Environmentalist
“If the human race is to survive, then we must respect the rights of other species to survive. Sharing bedroom space with a grizzly bear is not practical but sharing wilderness space is. We must therefore, restrict human activity in spaces where threatened or endangered species live. We must stay out of their bedroom. Set aside some wild spaces while they yet exist. Closing the wild spaces after all of the wild things are gone will not work.” … Bob McMeans
“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo . . . We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also”. … Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
“Heaven is by favor – if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made – man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport – knowing it to be pain”. … Mark Twain
“A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals”. … Michael Pollan
“When they lay me down to rest, put my spurs and rope upon my chest. Get my friends to carry me and then go and turn my horses free.”. … Clyde Kennedy
“Brothers and sisters I bid you beware of giving your heart to a dog to tear“. … Rudyard Kipling
“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing – if this must come – seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires and the sea.”. …. Peter Matthiessen
“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.” … Lawrence Anthony
