Animal Right Quotes 3

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

-- Albert Einstein

 Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) 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... 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. 

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

"The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history." 

-- Edward Freeman

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

-- Mohandas Gandhi

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures. 

-- Mohandas Gandhi

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

-- Mohandas Gandhi

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.

-- Mohandas Gandhi

"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."

~ Thomas Jefferson

"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. 

-- Immanuel Kant

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

-- Abraham Lincoln